Thread: Aussie Malaria vaccine

I think this is fantastic. No doubt the anti-vaccine crew will be here to tell us we are better off without it.

It evil, pure evil!


























Good work to those who created the vaccine, much needed

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now, let see how long it will take to start a................................

It is great news but unfortunately the Malaria virus mutates so quickly it will be near impossible to keep up with the mutations.
I've had Malaria and its not fun at all, ended up in Hospital in Zimbabwe after i collapsed in Harare and thought it was just heat stroke.
Then 3 years later i was working in Adelaide and was struck down again.

i wish they had a vaccine against mozzies

Originally Posted by loanrangie

It is great news but unfortunately the Malaria virus mutates so quickly it will be near impossible to keep up with the mutations.
I've had Malaria and its not fun at all, ended up in Hospital in Zimbabwe after i collapsed in Harare and thought it was just heat stroke.
Then 3 years later i was working in Adelaide and was struck down again.

Let hope that it will be not the case with this vaccine, Professor Good said. quote:
"researchers had focused on developing “sub-unit vaccines” targeting individual proteins in the hope of inducing a broader immune response. “The problem with that approach, shown time and time again, is that the proteins mutate.

“Slight differences in any one protein are often enough to mean the immune response which recognises one strain won’t recognise another. Because we’re using the entire parasite, our approach eliminates that problem.”