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... Plummer at baplum0@uky.edu. Researchers at the University of Kentucky are studying the safety of a new vaccine for smallpox. The study is part of a national program to develop vaccines that would protect U.S. citizens against a terrorist attack that ...
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... the cost. The reasoning behind this is because the vaccine is not cost-effective. Unlike inoculations for polio or smallpox, the amount of money saved by not treating a disease does not merit the cost. This vaccine does not cure cancer. It doesn't ...
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... such as "brain fever" (meningitis), Bright's disease (kidney failure), cancer, cholera, tuberculosis, heart attack, smallpox, tetanus, typhoid fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, malaria, and a host of others for which there are medications that have ...
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... fewer antigens in their vaccines than the children did in the early 1900's. Specifically, the original polio and smallpox vaccines had more antigens than all the vaccines our kids get in the modern vaccination schedule, and yet there was no outbreak ...
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... off the endangered species list for good. That's a joke-- H. pylori is not on the endangered species list. Heck smallpox is (thankfully) only found in a few labs, yet it's not considered endangered. Eradication reduces biodiversity, which isn't ...
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... ultra-violet light to heal tubercolosis. More currently, red light was used to suppress the effects of the smallpox virus. Additionally, the second Nobel Prize in medicine ever was awarded in 1903 to Niels Ryberg Finsen, MD in recognition of his ...
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... Library of Science). The same vaccine platform has also been effective in animal studies with influenza, anthrax, smallpox, RSV and HIV, further enhancing commercialization potential. "It certainly is an opportunity with hepatitis B, but it's just ...
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Immunization is one of modern medicine's most significant public health achievements. Vaccines have eradicated smallpox, eliminated polio and significantly reduced the number of cases of measles, diphtheria, rubella (German measles), pertussis ...
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... safer would be to use a closely-related, but not human, protein as the vaccine, much like cowpox virus is used for smallpox immunizations. In the August 15 Journal of Biological Chemistry, Robert Friedland and colleagues used this concept on an ...
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... II HIV data package, with outstanding data from a Phase II study in 300 HIV infected subjects that had no prior smallpox vaccination. Recruitment in this study was completed in the second quarter of 2008 and the interim safety data will be reported ...
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... States, virtual elimination of a number of transmissible diseases had occurred: cholera, yellow fever, dysentery, smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria, and polio. Tuberculosis, the leading cause of death at the beginning of the 20th century, was greatly ...
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... many of the diseases that ravage us today (as well as many that we have succeeded in overcoming, such as smallpox) were originally transmitted from animals that we domesticated. Thus, farmers, as Diamond puts it, "tend to breathe out nastier germs" ...
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... safer would be to use a closely-related, but not human, protein as the vaccine, much like cowpox virus is used for smallpox immunisations. Robert Friedland and colleagues used this concept on an amyloid-like protein found in potato virus (PVY). They ...
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... anthrax - ailments that could be caused by a potential bioterrorist attack - as well as communicable diseases like smallpox. "In the past decision makers were only able to observe - watch people get sick, go to the hospital, and maybe die," Ray ...
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