Vaccine
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In 1998, a British researcher published an article in one of the most important medical journals, saying that the MMR vaccine, which is given for measles, mumps and rubella, was associated with autism.
People would line up in pharmacies to get a vaccine, without even knowing if it was the right
vaccine
that would protect them against this new virus.
Identifying these at-risk groups was important to include them as priority groups in the recommendations for getting the influenza vaccine, not only here in Argentina, but also in other countries which the pandemic not yet reached.
A year later, when a
vaccine
against the pandemic H1N1 virus became available, we wanted to see what happened.
Sol was very young, and she hadn't yet received her first
vaccine
against whooping cough.
And it's just standard selection: we can select for viability, chemical or fuel production,
vaccine
production, etc.
You've seen this year with flu; we're always a year behind and a dollar short when it comes to the right
vaccine.
An effective
vaccine
against it has been available for more than half a century, but many of the kids involved in the Disneyland outbreak had not been vaccinated because their parents were afraid of something allegedly even worse: autism.
What if you could take a pill or a
vaccine
and, just like getting over a cold, you could heal your wounds faster?
In the future, we could see a scar-proof band-aid, a moldable muscle filler or even a wound-healing
vaccine.
It's an extreme form of dengue fever, a mosquito-born disease which also does not have an effective therapy or a vaccine, and kills 22,000 people each year.
Because right now, we don't have any effective therapy or
vaccine
available.
And in fact, we've actually had
vaccine
candidates available now for more than a decade.
This goes to the fundamental problem we have with
vaccine
development for infectious diseases.
Why is it that the Ebola
vaccine
wasn't fully developed at this point?
It can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to take even a well-known antigen and turn it into a viable
vaccine.
So if we want to be able to prevent epidemics like Ebola, we need to take on the risk of investing in
vaccine
development and in stockpile creation.
However, in spite of this, our approach to
vaccine
design has remained pretty rudimentary.
To make a good vaccine, we must go back to basics to understand how our bodies handle this complexity.
Until recently, when one had identified a protein of interest, they tested whether it might be important for a
vaccine
by conducting a cohort study.
The recipe behind a successful antibody response, so that we can predict what might make a good malaria
vaccine.
Shoham Arad: OK, how close are we actually to a malaria
vaccine?
Faith Osier: We're just at the beginning of a process to try and understand what we need to put in the
vaccine
before we actually start making it.
So, we're not really close to the vaccine, but we're getting there.
So in SMART, apart from the goal that we have, to develop a malaria vaccine, we are also training African scientists, because the burden of disease in Africa is high, and you need people who will continue to push the boundaries in science, in Africa.
Tell me, I know you mentioned this a little bit, but how would things actually change if there were a malaria
vaccine?
In order to save lives, it's going to try using drones to deliver lifesaving drugs, vaccines and blood to people in hard-to-reach places in partnership with a company called Zipline, with UPS, and also with the Gavi, a global
vaccine
alliance.
So in immune vaccines, you'll get your shots, and then weeks, months, years later, when you're actually exposed to bacteria, it's not the
vaccine
in your body that protects you.
Getting vaccinated is not an option, because there isn't a
vaccine
yet and there probably won't be for a couple of years.
Whether you've had a flu
vaccine.
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