DIY virus for better vaccines
by friver ~ June 30th, 2008. Filed under: Strange Research, Strange Technology News.
We’ve known for a while that one way to make the body impervious to certain diseases is to give it a low, safe dose of that disease, so our immune system gets a good idea of how to fight it and build up antibodies to fight it. That’s the basic concept for vaccination in general.
What’s so cool about this latest development is, scientists have actually developed a weak-ass artificial polio virus inside a lab. The weakened virus, first developed in 2002 by the same team at the State University of New York, will hopefully lead to a safer polio vaccine that triggers the body’s immune system without actually being able to cause disease.
The problem with today’s polio vaccines is that they can be accidentally released into, say, the water supply, and there mutate into a stronger version that can cause disease. With the designer virus, this will hopefully be made impossible.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Thanks for the information on vaccines. A ‘weak-ass artificial polio virus’? Interesting.
We recently wrote an article on vaccines at Brain Blogger. A recent vaccine was created to help prevent the HPV virus in girls. But with how little it really does and with the toxic substances that have been proven to be in vaccinations, is it worth it?
We would like to read your comments on our article. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kelly