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by viciokie
» Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:35 pm
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While this vaccine is still in test phases and there are some quirks to be ironed out, it seems malaria may be headed the way of measles and polio.(excepting the weird strains of course)
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-me ... ng-results Thoughts everyone? |
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by Northstar
» Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:02 pm
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Fingers crossed it may be so.  I read recently they are hoping polio will go the way of smallpox by 2018. IIRC the most lethal disease is AIDS, whose insidious slowness let's us all stay in denial about the tens of millions it has killed and is killing, worldwide, the vast majority of whom are straight. It has killed way over a quarter million people right here in America. People die of it here every day. Lots. Several thousand every year. Still. See the CDC's site for that info. Others are more scary, like Ebola, but for relentless lethality AIDS wins. Speaking of things we hope never learn to go airborne. |
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by Emo Otaku
» Thu Jul 31, 2014 6:02 pm
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Unfortunately there will always be some nutjobs that refuse to take the vaccine (or allow their kids to take it), because it "causes autism" or "isn't as good as homeopathic medicine" or even "its a government conspiracy with the drug companies" and so the disease will continue to spread (we could of wiped out polio by now if it wasn't for these wacko's)
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by Northstar
» Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:22 pm
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True, but conventional medicine feeds those fears with its dismissive attitude and blatant big pharma greed. Sad all around. Read up on how they wiped out smallpox 'in the wild'. It's an amazing story. The sort no one would dare make up, but it's all true. See The Demon in the Freezer, by Richard Preston, as well as other books about this. I was raised a lot by my gr gr aunts and gr gr uncle and gr grandmother, all of whom had scars from surviving smallpox. They had family and friends who died of it. My mother's best friend was in an iron lung with polio when I was a kid. she survived and mostly recovered but her right arm was weak the rest of her life. I would love to see this sucker go extinct. Doubtless knowing people who have gotten horrific life threatening infectious diseases, and gotten one myself - H1N1 flu - affects my attitude toward being reasonably aware this sort of thing CAN happen. And I remember having measles as a child. Yuckers. No vaccine for it then, now there is. |
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by Lord Skimper
» Wed Aug 13, 2014 7:25 am
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My Dad was immune to small pox. I always wondered if this meant I might be too?
Supposedly this allows for some kind of HIV resistance too. ________________________________________
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