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Linda Comment:  More and more folks should get involved with the truth about vaccines.

Vaccine Truth: Your Child. Your Choice.

www.vactruth.com

Full article: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20822349&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

Ehrlichia are tick-borne obligately intracellular bacteria that
cause significant diseases in veterinary natural hosts, including
livestock and companion animals, and are now considered important
zoonotic pathogens in humans. Vaccines are needed for these
veterinary and zoonotic human pathogens, but many obstacles exist
that have impeded their development. These obstacles include
understanding genetic and antigenic variability, influence of the
host on the pathogen phenotype and immunogenicity, identification
of the ehrlichial antigens that stimulate protective immunity and
those that elicit immunopathology, development of animal models
that faithfully reflect the immune responses of the hosts and
understanding molecular host-pathogen interactions involved in
immune evasion or that may be blocked by the host immune
response.
We review the obstacles and progress in addressing barriers
associated with vaccine development to protect livestock,
companion animals and humans against these host defense-evasive
and cell function-manipulative, vector-transmitted pathogens.

Full article:

Excerpt: http://www.liai.org/

Finding has major implications for efforts to develop a first-ever vaccine against the dangerous infectious disorder

SAN DIEGO – (February 11, 2010) A leading immunology research institute has validated the long-held and controversial hypothesis that antibodies – usually the “good guys” in the body’s fight against viruses – instead contribute to severe dengue virus-induced disease, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology announced today. The finding has major implications for the development of a first-ever vaccine against dengue virus, a growing public health threat which annually infects 50 to 100 million people worldwide, causing a half million cases of the severest form.

“Our lab has proven the decades old hypothesis that subneutralizing levels of dengue virus antibodies exacerbate the disease,” said La Jolla Institute scientist Sujan Shresta, Ph.D, noting this occurs in people with secondary dengue virus infections who have antibodies to the virus due to a previous infection. “This is a situation where antibodies can be bad for you, which is counter to everything we know about the normal function of antibodies. It also presents a special challenge for researchers working to develop a dengue virus vaccine, since most vaccines work by prompting the body to produce antibodies.”

Impact of RTS,S/AS02_A and RTS,S/AS01_B on Genotypes of P. falciparum in Adults Participating in a Malaria Vaccine

Clinical Trial

RTS,S, a candidate vaccine for malaria, is a recombinant protein expressed in yeast containing part of the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) sequence of 3D7 strain of Plasmodium falciparum linked to the hepatitis B surface antigen in a hybrid protein. The RTS,S antigen is formulated with GSK Biologicals’ proprietary Adjuvant Systems AS02_A or AS01_B. A recent trial of the RTS,S/AS02_A and RTS,S/AS01_B vaccines evaluated safety, immunogenicity and impact on the development of parasitemia of the two formulations. Parasite isolates from this study were used to determine the molecular impact of RTS,S/AS02_A and RTS,S/AS01_B on the multiplicity of infection (MOI) and the csp allelic characteristics of subsequent parasitemias. Continued

Linda’s comment:  Several of us have been trying for years to get the Department of Health to classify Lyme disease as an STD.  Doctors including Lyme Literate Medical Doctors=LLMD’s, are split.  We now know that Lyme can be sexually transmitted.  It makes sense to classify Lyme as STD.  We need to do all we can to help stop the spread of Lyme and Company.  I suggest when talking to your children about their sexual activities, to strongly warn them about the chance of getting sexually transmitted Lyme. Continued

On the Trail of a Vaccine for Lyme Disease: Yale Researchers Target Tick Saliva
Published: November 18, 2009

New Haven, Conn. — A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection from Lyme disease, which is spread through tick bites. Continued

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Linda

… from IMVA Medical News Commentaries list.

Yulia Tymoshenko, prime minister of Ukraine and a candidate in upcoming
national elections, visits a children’s hospital in western Ukraine.

Prime Minister Tymoshenko stated, “We cannot relax even for a moment because the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts two more waves of flu, including the bird flu, are expected in Ukraine. There is no alternative to vaccination. The entire world is going this way…” A day earlier she admitted she was not vaccinated and that she prefers “like all other people” plans to rely on garlic, onion and lemon as a way of preventing the flu. Commenting on what’s going on in Eastern Europe F. William Engdahl says, “The degree of fraud, deceit, official cover-up and outright criminal endangerment of the broad population by the current Swine Flu hysteria is seemingly without precedent.” Continued

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jul 29 – New research indicates that artemisinin resistance among Plasmodium falciparum isolates is common in western Cambodia and that in vitro testing may give false results.

Findings from another study indicate that inoculation of intact sporozoites can induce protection against malaria challenge. Both studies are reported in The New England Journal of Medicine for July 30. Continued