A team at Oxford University has had success testing a vaccine that can neuter any strain of flu virus. Photograph: Science Photo Library
Posted on 02/06/2011 3:35:45 PM PST by null and void
A team at Oxford University has had success testing a vaccine that can neuter any strain of flu virus. Photograph: Science Photo Library
The treatment ... targets a different part of the flu virus to traditional vaccines, meaning it does not need to be expensively reformulated every year to match the most prevalent virus that is circulating the world.
Developed by a team led by Dr Sarah Gilbert at Oxford's Jenner Institute, the vaccine targets proteins inside the flu virus that are common across all strains, instead of those that sit on the virus's external coat, which are liable to mutate.
If used widely a universal flu vaccine could prevent pandemics... and end the need for a seasonal flu jab.
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The process of developing a seasonal vaccine takes at least four months and if the flu strain is highly pathogenic – as in 1918 when millions of people died – the delay means more people get sick and die before the vaccine is ready.
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While traditional vaccines prompt the body to create antibodies, Gilbert's vaccine boosts the number of the body's T-cells, another key part of the immune system. These can identify and destroy body cells that have been infected by a virus.
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Though a small study, it was significant in that it was the first vaccine of its type to be tested on people.
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It is believed that the vaccine could provide better protection against flu for older people. The Jenner Institute scientists are already testing it on people over 50, a group that does not respond so well to traditional vaccines.
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LOL!
Why does the movie “I am Legend” come to mind?
Watch the globalists kill this asap.
May God protect the folks and the project and get it distributed ASAP.
Sorry, dear, you obviously don’t understand the free market system.
While doctors and drug makers as a group might make more money if a cure for flu or cancer were suppressed, the particular discoverers of the cure would lose out on an immense amount of money, not to mention fame, Nobel prizes, hot chicks, etc.
As individuals they have every incentive to screw the rest of their group. The invisible hand rules the world.
Or would if people just let it do its thing.
Sounds good to me. Run the tests, get it to market. Maybe it will knock the CDC down a notch or two ;-)
Since family members of doctors (and doctors themselves) do die from cancer, do you then believe that doctors stand by and watch their own wives, husbands, and children to suffer in extreme agony and then die before their time so that they can make money?
And that if they themselves get cancer, they willingly go to their own graves rather than break the silence? What do they do with the money being made off of cancer when they're dead?
And that not a single legitimate doctor anywhere would spill the beans in order to save the life of their loved ones?
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I doubt this is the case, for the simple reason that influenza has been around for a long, long time, and has weathered innumerable efforts by multiple animal immune systems to defeat it.
And it does not readily compare to smallpox, which in a manner of speaking was a victim of its own complexity and specialization. In fact, it is one of the most complex viruses known, and unlike many other viruses even contains DNA, not just RNA.
Influenza, however, is a creature of adaptation. Its RNA is very “flexible”, and it easily exchanges RNA information with other similar viruses, as having frequent mutations. If it is unsuccessful, it is only a matter of time until it mutates enough to be successful, after bruising natural selection competition with others of its kind.
Thus flocks and herds of birds and animals act almost like a giant computer to create the most successful strains of influenza.
I thought overactive T-cells were the cause of several auto-immune diseases such as MS and type 1 diabetes.
Kill all strains,,,temporarily because they will mutate and become immune to the vaccine. It won`t be much longer till anti-biotics are totally useless. Then a simple operation in a hospital will be a death warrant.
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