Are we close to being able to develop a universal flu vaccine that would confer
immunity against all strains of influenza?
Not exact matches
His argument on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, rests on a
strained parsing of the Reconstruction debates intended to show that the Privileges and
Immunities Clause (which the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated shortly after the Amendment's adoption) was intended to make the Bill of Rights operative
against the states.
Also, you strengthen your
immunity against blood pressure related issues such as preeclampsia as resting relieves
strain on your heart.
We would provide a herd
immunity against every single
strain conceivable.
Can some
immunity from past shots or exposures protect you
against seasonal or epidemic
strains, like some older adults who seemed to already have some
immunity to H1N1?
The swine vaccinated in Van Reeth's study also had increased
immunity against variant
strains that were not included in the vaccine.
«Single dose Ebola vaccine is safe, effective in monkeys
against outbreak
strain: VSV - EBOV appears to trigger innate, adaptive
immunity.»
This could be an important breakthrough: Anyone who has survived a dengue - related illness has then acquired
immunity against that specific pathogen, but when it comes to the other three
strains, that person is at even greater risk.
And dangerous pandemic
strains often have radically new blobs
against which existing
immunity is limited.
But scientists predict that the avian - flu virus could someday give rise to a fast - spreading
strain against which people would have less
immunity than they do to a typical winter flu.
Immunologists are working on vaccines that don't need to be reformulated each year: «universal vaccines» that induce broad
immunity, protecting
against current and future
strains of flu by mechanisms that are not just dependent on antibody.
Richard forwarded to me this awesome post earlier on C butyricum (aka C oncolyticum — the Clostridium
strain that «breaks and dissolves» cancer tumours) and floods our gut with butyrate, aids our digestion, protects
against fungi and pathogens, and helps
immunity.
Therefore, dogs at risk should be vaccinated
against both
strains.2 This is because the viruses are relatively new, and dogs have no natural
immunity to it.
There is also no data that supports that vaccination with the current vaccine will provide any type of
immunity against the new
strain.