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So apparently they found a possible cure for Malaria....
the only catch is that the person who takes tha vaccine will not be cured... but the bug that causes malaria will have the disease neutralized as it travels and bites people who have had the dose.
They say that it would take quite a long time but that eventually it's possible that the malaria disease could be wiped out.
The question is whether or not people are willing to take a vaccine that they know will not help them.
It reminds me of a story that I heard.....
I guy is shown heaven and hell
Hell is a bunch of emmaciated people sitting around a table of food with their wrists restrained on the table with spoons that are too long for them to be able to feed themselves with....
Heaven is a bunch of healthy people sitting around a table of food with their wrists restrained on the table with spoons that are long enough to feed the people across from them with..
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Well don't keep me in suspense, which one did he choose?
perhaps, he doesn't choose, because they're both so similar? but i digress, the vaccine is kinda like our own personal malaria virus (except it doesn't kill the mosquitoes).
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the only catch is that the person who takes tha vaccine will not be cured
I was udner the impression that vaccines didn't cure people in the first place. They prevent you from getting the disease.
I think it's a good idea. I mean, sure, it's a shot. It gives you something that, when a mosquito bites you, neutralizes the malaria parasite in their system. They become, effectively, non-malaria mosquitos. It sucks for the person bitten, but think of the alternative; without this, this person still gets bitten and gets malaria, but that mosquito uses the blood to have an entire brood of malaria-prone mosquitos. Several others are bitten by this batch, and the parasites spread.
I'd go for it. It will eventually help wipe out malaria, even if it doesn't help this generation. If you'd get bitten anyway, you might as well have your mind at ease while you are feverish and vomiting.
No, actually vaccines trick your imune system cells into thinking you have the disease even though its an impotent version. Thus, they "morph", become immune to said disease. There was a polish doctor in WWII who tricked the germans into sparing whole encampments of catholic polls and uh i guess jewish polls into thinking they had typhoid, a deadly communicable disease, by injecting them with the dead typhoid vaccince virus. Blood tests of course tested positive, and a simple immune shot like for chicken pocks worked. they were quarantined away from being touched or moved. Schindler can fuck off.
That's funny though, they reversed the dna river flow? The mosquito sucks up a virus that gives the mosquito its own death version of mosquito malaria. At least until the leftist environmentalists declare them endangered. Who knew you people would be so acceptable to bio-terror-warfare-experiments.
Thanks for the Marxist Bondage analogy though.
Who here is sharp enough to give the midevil versions of such? C'mon multiple mmorpg examples.
Edited, Dec 23rd 2006 11:32am by MonxDoT
That's funny though, they reversed the dna river flow? The mosquito sucks up a virus that gives the mosquito its own death version of mosquito malaria. At least until the leftist environmentalists declare them endangered. Who knew you people would be so acceptable to bio-terror-warfare-experiments.
Thanks for the Marxist Bondage analogy though.
Who here is sharp enough to give the midevil versions of such? C'mon multiple mmorpg examples.
Edited, Dec 23rd 2006 11:32am by MonxDoT
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