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Vaccines Can Help Fight the Rise of Drug-Resistant Microbes (harvard.edu)
An anonymous reader quotes the Harvard School of Public Health:
Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea, salmonella, Escherichia coli (E. coli) and many other disease-causing agents are flourishing around the world, and the consequences are disastrous -- at least 700,000 people die globally as a result of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) annually, according to a 2016 review on antimicrobial resistance commissioned by former UK Prime Minister David Cameron. It's a perilous situation, but several new studies from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health indicate that an important tool in the fight against AMR already exists: vaccines.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently devoted a special feature section to examine the role vaccines can play in stemming the tide of antimicrobial resistance. In general terms, vaccinations can help lessen the burden in two ways: First, they can protect against the direct transmission of drug-resistant infections. Second, they can lessen the chances of someone getting sick, which in turn reduces the likelihood that he or she will be prescribed antibiotics or other medications. The fewer medications someone takes, the less likely it is that microbes will evolve resistance to the drugs.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently devoted a special feature section to examine the role vaccines can play in stemming the tide of antimicrobial resistance. In general terms, vaccinations can help lessen the burden in two ways: First, they can protect against the direct transmission of drug-resistant infections. Second, they can lessen the chances of someone getting sick, which in turn reduces the likelihood that he or she will be prescribed antibiotics or other medications. The fewer medications someone takes, the less likely it is that microbes will evolve resistance to the drugs.
Better start rebuilding our soil...
"Tempers are wearing thin. Let's just hope some robot doesn't kill everybody." --Bender
There has been what some might consider an exhaustive effort to develop numerous bacterial vaccines for cows to mitigate episodes of bovine mastitis and the only one that has been moderately successful is the J-5 E. coli vaccine. There are 4 to 5 other species of bacteria that can cause bovine mastitis and vaccines against those other species haven't been successful in the last 20 years.
I had to wait 90 seconds for slashdot to load dozens of advertising trackers.
I guess this marks my departure from Slashdot. This is a sign of what will become the world wide web for the rest of our future. We had a chance to make a difference and the same dichotomies of change that prevented TV from being a learning medium will prevent the internet from reaching it's true intent. Or in less savage terms, the golden era of the internet has already passed and like traveling before 9/11, no one will remember what it was like.
Better luck next time.
-dk
No one has ever said vaccines are perfectly safe. However the risk vs reward is near 100%. I would rather risk (although it is proven bullshit) my kid have a 1 in 50000 chance of autism than a 50/50 shot at a real disease like measles that kills and is now re-entering our population through 2 routes: the open southern border and anti-vax morons who do not give their kids shots.
Someone I know from work was an anti-vax idiot. He talked about it all the time. Then he married his pregnant illegal alien Mexican girlfriend.
She told him he was a moron and got the kid shots and the next 2 that followed.
Uneducated Mexican farm girl smarter than college educated American engineer.
Says a lot about what they teach in college these days.
Nearly all microbes adapt to antibiotics. The reason is that after enough usage 1 of them will develop a resistance to the antibiotic. Then the resistance is normally passed around to others, typically via plasmid. So, just for fun, assume that it takes on average 1T instances of being exposed prior to resistance. If you have stimulated the body to fight the AMR, then we do not have to use antibiotic except for extreme cases.
This is why at some point, we really need to REQUIRE vaccines for all. At the least, require that unvaccinated be removed from ALL schools except for home schooling, and if they catch a disease, they have to pay for everything.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
These kinds of problems (rampant disease in cattle) seem to affect mostly cows crammed into unclean and unsanitary conditions.
Maybe they don't need a vaccine at all, but better animal husbandry. But I guess common sense and decency will never win out against greed.
That would be extremely rare though: https://microbialmenagerie.com...
And even if it would happen it would happen anyway as your body would create the very same antibodies once you get exposed to the decease as your be from being vaccinated for the same decease.
So in other words you have no clue what so ever what a vaccine really is. If these microbes some how magically develop resistance to the antibodies created by the vaccine then they will also create the very same resistance to the antibodies created by the body's first reaction to the same decease since these antibodies will be 100% the same in both cases.
People say vaccines are perfectly safe all the time and call anyone who questions that batshit stupid. I had at least one someone reply to me saying exactly that last week here in Slashdot.
Even if you know someone injured by a vaccine and/or someone who received a payout from the secret vaccine court you're still batshit.
Anytime a narrative over powers reality the narrative needs questioning, and this narrative is super powerful.
My suggestion to restoring trust:. Do away with the secret court and government backed payout fund. Treat vaccine injuries like other malpractice and product related injuries that get tried in public.
Accountability and trust go hand in hand. Secret courts and blanket immunity for a whole industry does not build trust.
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You are almost entirely incorrect.
I had chickenpox twice when I was a child. My first case was so mild that my immune system did not maintain antibodies for it. My second case was more severe and my immunity to chicken pox has persisted. Yes, antibodies developed by vaccines can wear off, but so can antibodies developed by normal infections. Also, shingles is just a reemergence of the same chickenpox virus that most adults contracted as children. The virus hides in the nervous system and reemerges as people get older and their immune systems get weaker and less able to fight off the virus.
Not all viruses are the same. Many viruses have DNA coding that weeds out mutations. Measles, chickenpox, polio, and smallpox are viruses that do this. This is why vaccinations for these diseases work for decades and why people can develop life-long immunity after a childhood infection. Some viruses, like Influenza and HIV, mutate rapidly and are hard to inoculate against. Incidentally, viruses tend to mutate more quickly in malnourished people. If food shortages become more widespread as the world population increases we are likely to see more frequent viral mutations.
Yes, vaccines do cause injury. The oral polio vaccines was one particular vaccine that could cause a polio infection. There is a genetic disorder that can cause children who receive vaccinations develop high fevers than can cause brain damage or death (but any infection can trigger this response). There is always a risk of infection for any injections. But if billions of dollars been paid out, or is it extremely difficult to win a case? It seems like the two statements are at odds with each other. Statistics show that 80% of cases are settled out of court with the plaintiff receiving an award. Of the remaining cases that are adjudicated, about one quarter of then result in a win for the plaintiff. http://time.com/3995062/vaccin... Now, if a person tries to go to the court saying the MMR vaccine caused their child's Autism, they will loose. Not only is there no verifiable link between Autism and vaccinations, the doctor who originally put forward this notion was prosecuted for fraud because he was developing his own competing vaccine technology and wanted to discredit existing technologies.
On a side note, Jurassic Park glossed over almost all of the science, and the book was better.
Is this the secret court you are talking about? The one advertised the HRSA web site? https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-c...
It's called a secret court because what happens in the court itself are secret, not the existence of the court itself.
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"There is NO RISK WHATSOEVER. All the cases of autism and other iatrogenic diseases caused by vaccines are FAKE NEWS."
Shut up, Jenny McCarthy.
'Measles was a minor annoyance illness for thousands of years before anyone invented a vaccine. It's just not that bad.'
You're an idiot or you're Jenny McCarthy.
"In 2011, the WHO estimated that there were about 158,000 deaths caused by measles. This is down from 630,000 deaths in 1990.[4] "
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Don't believe the conspiracy theories. Vaccines aren't perfectly safe: any treatment has the potential for adverse reactions. Vaccine side effects are VERY well monitored. Reporting is legally required, and the data is public.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesaf...
That's not entirely true. There are different kinds of vaccines. An organism could develop resistance to a vaccine consisting of viral or bacterial particles.
Here. I doubt that whoever that person is, will respond to you, so I will;
You are a constant liar. Here is just a few examples. You claim all the time that I am a denier of America's pollution as well as Global. Yet, I have never ONCE done that. I DO say that America has been headed in the right direction for the last 10 years (save 2018), while CHina is the exact opposite. Even in 2018, we were headed in the right direction, EXCEPT for nat. gas for electricity. That has to stop and we need geo-thermal, along with nuclear.
BTW, I KNOW that almost all of these ACs are you. Yeah, every so often somebody else will post AC, but it is easy enough to see that they are not some paid Chinese Troll like you.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
You are better off not answering the AC that is following me. Nearly all are Caffeinated Bacon/ Crimson Tsunami (1 guy that uses at least these 2, and possibly more logons, as well as posts as AC). The guy is a Chinese troll that constantly lie.
With that said, bugs do not become resistant to vaccines. What happens is that some bugs, mostly virus, undergoes antigenic shift. Basically, the markers on the various bugs that antibodies react to, will change shape (or simply disappear). A great example of this is Flu. That is why CDC keeps looking for a single shared STABLE protein on the outside, that is exposed, and most everybody has antibodies to. Basically, a silver bullet. Sadly, since CDC could not find that (so far), we continue to do yearly vaccinations.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
WindBourne's Secret Admirer will definitely pop up again sooner rather than later. He/she/it actually thinks he's/she's/it's helping your cause by showing the kinds of kooks that you attract.
You deny constantly that American people are worse than Chinese people when it comes to CO2.
You deny that historically America is the biggest source of CO2.
You constantly play down the reality that America per person is still over twice as bad as Chinese people. You try to convince everyone that because they got a little better (except last year when you got worse) they are the good guys. They are not. They are still twice as bad as European and Chinese people, there are just less of them.
You constantly claim America should naturally produce so much CO2 because it's GDP is high.
Your one example of a lie (which you 'claimed' was a few examples) isn't even a lie.
But then you constantly claim links say what you want them to when they clearly do not.
Even here in that very post you lie yet again.
Even in 2018, we were headed in the right direction, EXCEPT for nat. gas for electricity.
Transport was your biggest emitter, it got worse again. Like it has every year since 2012. You have been shown many times, why still lie?
But then it's standard for WindBourne to lie. He does it so much, he can't help but lie even in the posts where he accuses me of lying. Here here and herefor example. Yet he still can't show one. Strange.
Yeah, as forskolin reviews said to me at my last consultation, next 10-15 years gonna be a medical revolution and we gonna be as healthy as never before. So, seeing news like this really makes me feels like we going into future for real.
I happen to be very close to more than one person who works in the pharmaceutical industry, or has at one point in time or another.
When a vaccine industry gets reported it's like pulling teeth to get a report filed. When a person lower on the pole tries to make it happen, they're more often than not blocked by someone higher up. Reporting vaccine injuries is considered "bad behavior" by at least one very large and very recognizable chain.
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Perhaps your "friend" in the pharma industry is fibbing. Adverse reaction reporting is done by treating physicians, and is taken very seriously. The US has a problem with pharma, money and physicians, but there's a lot less payola in vaccines.
Pharmacies give vaccines now. In fact if there's a pharmacy near you getting close to flu season the icon on Waze says "Flu Shot". A pharmacist is not a physician, and there's more than just flu shots done at pharmacies, they practically beg the elderly to get shingles shots at the checkout counter.
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