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Ebola vaccine with 100% success rate developed
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UnluckyKate
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all it took was some western scare to care
It was 100% effective in the trial, but more research is needed. But still really promising and they've basically decided to vaccinate everyone who comes in contact with an ebola patient.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33733711
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/health/guinea-ebola-vaccine/
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33733711
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/health/guinea-ebola-vaccine/
GrizzleBoy
Banned
Yours for just $10,000 per ml.
TimorousPanda
Member
That's incredible.
Here's hoping it really fully works on those infected.
Vaccines only work on the uninfected, right?
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
I probably haven't been paying attention but it seems like it's been a while since we've had some awesome vaccines come out. This is huge.
glad i wasn't the only one thinking it
Shuggananas
Banned
but what if it gives you autism
/s
Orbis Tabula
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Goddamn! I hope this is as promising as it seems. Fantastic news.
guggnichso
Banned
Here's the paper if anyone is interested:
http://www.thelancet.com/pb/assets/raw/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673615611175.pdf
http://www.thelancet.com/pb/assets/raw/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673615611175.pdf
Got to be kinda sad about this tho... this only exists because countries outside of Africa where feeling threatened by the recent outbreak so they finally decided to throw money at the scientist to develop a cure. But when that shit only affected African or other poor populations not fucks were given.... as usual... see the space race... scared of the USSR/ USA..let's to amazing shit (go in space, to the moon etch)
The Giant
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Only in America.
guggnichso
Banned
It won't.
metalslimer
Member
And yet this won't do much at all for the people in Africa. Look at all the diseases that are easily preventable and treatable that still exist in multiple African countries.
Well when there is incentive and $$ things can happen.
But its definitely good that they were able to produce something effective in a short period of time.
You really think this all happened in that short a period of time? Uhhh
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
How can they create such a vaccine so quickly but for other killers not?
It always makes me suspicious.
It always makes me suspicious.
Business
Member
Should have been first post.
Blackage
Member
No fucking shit right?
White people in Western Civilization were in danger, cure in a year.
Cant wait for Americans to start seeing cases of cancer in their population than, come on man this is a great break through.
metalslimer
Member
I haven't read the paper yet but it's complicated. For one thing with something like say HIV it mutates so quickly that a vaccine would be useless by the time it was developed
Also developing something like a cure for cancer is near impossible because of how many forms it takes and how many ways it can happen
Cancer is a Virus? Learning something new every day...😒
C'mon folks, lets not go there. The rabbit hole is dark and scary.
A potential cure is here. Its time for celebration, bitches.
Oh shit this is even better than I thought it would be, obviously more research needs to be done but that P value is looking pretty sexy.
CharlieDigital
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There was never any point in spending tens of millions (or more) developing a vaccine for a disease that only affected a few dozen or hundred people a year. What changed is that it killed many thousands.
The west was never threatened by ebola.
shadowsdarknes
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Too late. Obama already completely fucked us by not enforcing a travel ban.
Too be fair, those are viruses that happen to also increase the risk for certain types of cancer. Cancer is byproduct of the viral infection.
guggnichso
Banned
This has nothing to to with the absourd proposition that there might ever be a vaccine in the traditional sense against cancer.
Also, cancer is not a word that describes a single disease. It instead describes a plethora of diseases that share common traits (see Hanahan, Weinberg; "Hallmarks of cancer"), but reach those through completely different means (different mutations compromising different or same pathways in the cells in different ways).
While people are actually working on so called "cancer vaccines" (i.e. dendritic cell vaccination etc), those concepts have very little in common with what we currently know as vaccines and in my opinion should not be labeled as such, because they plant false ideas in the mind of the uninformed public.
Can you explain why 'cancer vaccines' shouldn't be considered vaccines?
Vaccines are essentially the prepping of the immune system for a future threat. Cancer is a whole different type of metabolic process and has many different origination points.
the HPV vaccine is a 'cancer vaccine' - does wonders for cervical cancer
they're looked into vaccines for EBV, but it's still not clear that even if a vaccine works, if it would prevent cancer or not
but not all cancers are caused by viruses, unless that wasn't what you were confused about
Well from what I understand 'cancer vaccines' inject material that induces the immune system to attack cancer cells. This is done in patients that already have cancer and the material injected is precisely tuned to the specific cancer present in the patient.
I'm not talking about viruses.
CharlieDigital
Banned
In some cases, those vectors can be prevented by a vaccine.
Sure it's not a direct cancer vaccine, but it is effectively equivalent in the sense that vaccines against certain viral diseases will decrease the co-incidence of cancer with those diseases.
Tim the Wiz
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Best news I've heard all day. 
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