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    Vaccines



    Do you support the Anti-Vaccine idiots? I think they are a threat to the health of our nation.

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    Lack of Confidence in Vaccines Can Cause Disease Outbreaks, Scientists Warn...

    Scientists: Lack of Confidence in Vaccines Could Lead to Outbreaks
    September 12, 2016 — Public mistrust of vaccines is causing the outbreak of diseases like measles, according to researchers.
    Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in Singapore questioned 66,000 people across 67 countries to discover their views on whether vaccines are important, safe, effective and compatible with their religious beliefs. People in southeast Asia showed the highest level of confidence in vaccines, with Africa second.

    Yellow fever

    The survey comes as a major yellow fever vaccination program is under way in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. An outbreak of the disease has killed hundreds of people. The World Health Organization aims to vaccinate more than 15 million people in both countries. "If everyone agrees to be vaccinated, we can eradicate yellow fever from our country," said Mosala Mireille, one of the head doctors overseeing the program in Kinshasa. Europe showed the lowest level of confidence, driven largely by France where 41 percent of the population questions the safety of vaccines.

    Scares dent public confidence

    Doctor Heidi Larson from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says recent high-profile press coverage in France of vaccine scares has dented public confidence. "Anxieties about links between Hepatitis B [vaccines] and multiple sclerosis several years ago, scientifically deemed unlinked, but still caused anxiety,” Larson said. “There still is today concerns about side effects related to the HPV vaccine, again not scientifically confirmed." Mistrust in France was also driven by the response to the H1N1 flu outbreak fears in 2009, when the government spent $1.4 billion on 94 million doses of the vaccine. The majority were sold off or destroyed.


    Lack of Confidence in Vaccines Can Cause Disease Outbreaks, Scientists Warn

    Larson fears the consequences of that mistrust. "We will get some combination of influenza strains that will be very fatal,” Larson said. “And if we have such poor compliance with a pandemic vaccine in the future, I would be very worried about that." Researchers warn that decreases in confidence can lead to people refusing vaccines, which in turn can trigger disease outbreaks. But the study found a high level of global support for vaccinating children against disease.

    http://www.voanews.com/a/lack-confid...n/3503670.html

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    Vaccines have their place, but too many are used for children, and too many are given in a day. I believe it to be a big stress on the nervous system. Medical research is often explored in a way to make a point or arrive at a conclusion, not always the truth. A reality if you don't look for the truth, you are not likely to find it. Criteria and standards are often manipulated also.

    Vaccines may not be the only factor, other chemical stresses may be factors also, but it's too coincidental to see autism growing at the rate it is. More and better diagnosis is not a valid reasoning.

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    Birddog wrote: I believe it to be a big stress on the nervous system.

    Yea...

    ... when I was a kid an' seen the doctor comin' at me with a shot...

    ... I'd get real nervous.

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    BOOBONIC PLAGUE has infected the American electorate!

    The only cure for that is rational reason, and that doesn't appear to be happening!

    We are about to find out if we can die from National stupidity!

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    Breakthrough deal with six pharmaceutical companies...

    UNICEF: Vaccine Price Drop Will Save Millions of Child Lives
    October 19, 2016 — The U.N. Children’s Fund reports a steep drop in the price of a crucial childhood vaccine will prevent millions of deaths in dozens of the world’s poorest countries.
    The U.N. children’s fund reports 1.5 million children under five die each year from illnesses preventable by vaccines. Thanks to a breakthrough deal with six pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of a pentavalent vaccine many of these deaths will be averted. Director of UNICEF’s supply and procurement headquarters, Shanelle Hall, says it has taken 16 years to bring down the price of the vaccine. “From next year through 2019, we will be able to procure this pentavalent vaccine, which protects children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza B for less than one dollar a dose, and that is half the price that we pay this year, this month, this week,” she said.


    Health official administers a polio vaccine to a child in Kawo Kano, Nigeria.

    Hall says that averages out to 84 cents a dose. She says 90 percent of the world’s children under five who die from vaccine-preventable diseases live in countries where vaccines are not fully funded by donors. She says the lower vaccine cost will make a difference between life and death. “This price decrease will generate a savings of over $366 million for donors and governments who finance the vaccine," she said. "And, it is important for access and also for pressures on national budgets.”

    The vaccine alliance GAVI funds immunization programs in developing countries. It estimates 5.7 million fewer children will die between 2011 and 2020 in 80 countries that will procure these cheap vaccines. Hall says by 2020 donors will pay less as national budgets increasingly cover the cost of the pentavalent vaccines themselves.

    http://www.voanews.com/a/drop-in-vac...s/3557865.html

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    A new way to help the immune system fight back...

    Personalized Vaccines Hold Cancer at Bay in Two Early Trials
    July 05, 2017 — A novel class of personalized cancer vaccines, tailored to the tumors of individual patients, kept disease in check in two early-stage clinical trials, pointing to a new way to help the immune system fight back.
    Although so-called immunotherapy drugs from the likes of Merck & Co, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche are starting to revolutionize cancer care, they still only work for a limited number of patients. By adding a personalized cancer vaccine, scientists believe it should be possible to improve substantially the effectiveness of such immune-boosting medicines.[ Twelve skin cancer patients, out of a total of 19 across both the trials, avoided relapses for two years after receiving different vaccines developed by German and U.S. teams, researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday.


    Larger studies are next


    The small Phase I trials now need to be followed by larger studies, but the impressive early results suggest the new shots work far better than first-generation cancer vaccines that typically targeted a single cancer characteristic. The new treatments contain between 10 and 20 different mutated proteins, or “neoantigens,” that are specific to an individual's tumour. These proteins are not found on healthy cells and they look foreign to the immune system, prompting specialist T-cells to step up their attack on cancer cells. One vaccine was developed at the U.S.-based Dana-Farber Institute and Broad Institute and the other by privately-owned German biotech firm BioNTech, which uses so-called messenger RNA to carry the code for making its therapeutic proteins.



    A health agent prepares a vaccine during a campaign of vaccination against yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



    Roche, the world's largest cancer drugmaker, is already betting on BioNTech's technology after signing a $310 million deal last September allowing it to test the German vaccine with its immunotherapy drug Tecentriq. BioNTech's co-founder and CEO Ugur Sahin told Reuters that combination trials using Roche's drug were due to start later this year against a number of different cancers. Rival biotech firm Neon Therapeutics, which was formed to exploit the U.S. research, initiated tests of its personalized neoantigen vaccine in combination with Bristol-Myer's Opdivo drug last year.


    Expensive treatment


    New drugs like Opdivo and Tecentriq that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but their typical price tag of more than $150,000 a year is controversial and adding a personalized vaccine will jack costs up further. Sahin acknowledged such vaccines would be expensive at first but said costs could be brought down by economies of scale and automation. “In the mid to long term the cost will fall dramatically ... it is an individual treatment but it is a universal process,” he said. “We are at a very early stage at the moment but in the long-run this approach could change everything.”


    Potential confirmed


    Cornelius Melief of Leiden University Medical Center, who was not involved in either study, said the research confirmed the potential of neoantigen vaccines. “Controlled, randomized Phase II clinical trials with more participants are now needed to establish the efficacy of these vaccines in patients with any type of cancer that has enough mutations to provide sufficient neoantigen targets for this type of approach,” he said. Mainz-based BioNTech is one of Europe's largest private biotech companies, with more than 500 employees and deals with Sanofi and Eli Lilly, as well as Roche. It is majority-owned by twin brothers Andreas and Thomas Struengmann, who sold generic drugmaker Hexal to Novartis in 2005. Sahin said BioNTech would probably stay private for another two to four years before deciding on an initial public offering.


    https://www.voanews.com/a/personaliz...s/3929854.html

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    Diphtheria makin' a comeback...

    Diphtheria: What Exactly Is It ... And Why Is It Back?
    December 8, 2017 - In the first century, a doctor called Aretaeus of Cappadocia described the rotting smell of "Egyptian ulcers." Ancient Chinese medical literature mentions a disease called "children-killing carbuncle." In 17th century Spain there were references to an illness known as "the strangler."
    They were talking about diphtheria, a highly infectious respiratory disease that colonizes a person's nose and throat, creating a thick layer of dead cells that can block the airway. It has always had a reputation for sickening children. With the introduction of a highly effective vaccine in the 1920s and early '30s, diphtheria faded away in much of the world. Today it's largely considered a disease of the past. But now it's back in the headlines, spreading quickly in places like Bangladesh and Yemen. The World Health Organization says it is sending a shipment of antitoxins to Bangladesh this weekend, after six deaths in a Rohingya refugee settlement. The organization did the same last week for Yemen, where at least 30 have died of the bacterial infection, many of them children. "It is shocking that in 2017, there are children dying of an ancient disease that is vaccine-preventable and can be easily treated," says Dr. Nevio Zagaria, the WHO representative in Yemen.

    What does the name diphtheria mean?

    First things first. The disease is named for the bacterium that causes it: Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Diphthera is Greek for "skin" or "hide," a reference to the thick membrane that forms in air passages. It can be pronounced two ways: "diff-THEE-ree-uh" or "dip-THEE-ree-uh."

    How does it spread?

    The bacterium that causes diphtheria can live in some people without causing them to show symptoms, which can occasionally lead to a Typhoid Mary-type situation where a person spreads it around without even realizing he has it.


    Children get their diphtheria inoculation in 1944.

    It spreads between people in infected coughs and sneezes. Kids can also pick it up from playing with contaminated toys. Symptoms include sore throat, a low fever and lack of appetite, followed by a visible grayish coating in the nose or throat, and a swollen throat sometimes called a "bullneck."

    What does it do to people?

    The bacteria attach to the lining of the respiratory system and produce a poison that starts killing healthy tissue. It does so by preventing cells from creating proteins, which essentially shuts them down. After a few days, it can kill so many cells that dead tissue forms a grayish layer in the nose and throat that can make it hard to breathe or swallow. Essentially, it can choke a person on his own dead cells. If the poison also gets into the bloodstream, it can damage vital organs like the heart and kidneys. Interestingly, there are actually two layers of infection going on here, because it's a virus inside the bacterium that causes it to create the toxin in the first place. Eventually, the illness can cause nerve damage, paralysis and respiratory failure.

    How do you treat it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by birddog View Post
    Vaccines have their place, but too many are used for children, and too many are given in a day. I believe it to be a big stress on the nervous system. Medical research is often explored in a way to make a point or arrive at a conclusion, not always the truth. A reality if you don't look for the truth, you are not likely to find it. Criteria and standards are often manipulated also.

    Vaccines may not be the only factor, other chemical stresses may be factors also, but it's too coincidental to see autism growing at the rate it is. More and better diagnosis is not a valid reasoning.
    The definition of autism is what is changing. It was true of ADD. Any kid who got antsy was ADD. Never was true.

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