ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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 Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:54 am Post subject: Re: Bird Flu Shot |
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| zappadelta wrote: |
| Has anyone gotten one in Korea? |
Shouting intended. "THERE IS NO BIRD FLU SHOT".
You can get a normal influenza shot anywhere but there is NO publicly available vaccine developed yet for bird flu. If someone is selling you one, they are lying through their teeth.
04:47 PM Dec. 17, 2005 PT
WASHINGTON -- In an isolation ward of a Baltimore hospital, up to 30 volunteers will participate in a bold experiment: A vaccine made with a live version of the most notorious bird flu will be sprayed into their noses.
First, scientists are dripping that vaccine into the tiny nostrils of mice. It doesn't appear harmful -- researchers have weakened and genetically altered the virus so that no one should get sick or spread germs -- and it protects the animals enough to try in people.
This is essentially FluMist for bird flu, and the hope is that, in the event of a flu pandemic, immunizing people through their noses could provide faster, more effective protection than the troublesome shots -- made with a killed virus -- the nation now is struggling to produce.
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Regular winter flu shots are made with killed influenza viruses, and the government is stockpiling experimental bird-flu vaccine made the same way. But those bird-flu shots don't work as well as hoped. They require an incredibly high dose, delivered in two separate injections, to spark a protective immune response in people.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69868,00.html?tw=rss.TEK
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