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The cure for the flu is coming in 2012

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alanwest09872

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According to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8307569/Universal-flu-vaccine-breakthrough.html there will be a cure for the flu. It attacks proteins in the flu and breaks them down. So basically no more flu's. No swine flu's no bird flu no nothing. The flu is very deadly so this cure will be huge for the elderly and children. Deadly flu's have been acouring more often example swine flu and bird flu. This eases my mind greatly. Im afraid something bad is going to happen in the near future to wipe out humanity weither its are own doing or biological or even extraterrestrial. At least this eases my mind a bit. These new flus coming out are very deadly and now we have a way to fight it.

I just wanna say 3 cheers to the ones that are coming out with this vaccine. You did a great job.
 
Well hopefully that doesnt happen with this vaccine. That was a cure for cancer in that show. The vaccine changed the cells in the body and transformed them into a new being.
 
Dr Sarah Gilbert, who led the study, tested the vaccine on 11 healthy volunteers, all aged over 50, who were infected with H3N2 flu virus and compared them to 11 people who were also infected but did not receive the vaccine.

The new vaccine is thought to be more effective in treating older people who respond less well to traditional vaccines.
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Sorry, I must've missed the part about the cure for the flu. 🙄


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Won't happen. The government needs a way to distribute their mind control drugs, and the flu vaccine is a way to play on people's fear. 😛
 
Zombie apocalypse coming in 2013.

Seriously though I'll give it a few years and make sure none of my own proteins happen to be broken down by this "cure".
 
It sounds like a cure to me. You get sick, you take the medicine, it breaks down the virii's proteins and "kills" it. Unless it stays in your blood and fends off future attacks (that isn't what the OP says), it sounds more like a cure than a vaccine. Most vaccines work by triggering your immune system response to circulate antibodies before the live infection, which is not how this works at all.
 
TheVrolok said:
I'd also like to read a published paper before theorizing.
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Im not sure what you mean by paper but its been on the news alot. Not that the news over exacturates things at all do they. I thought people would be saying old news by now on this thread im suprized no one has said it yet
 
lord_emperor said:
Zombie apocalypse coming in 2013.

Seriously though I'll give it a few years and make sure none of my own proteins happen to be broken down by this "cure".
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Ignore the OP, it's basically wrong. This isn't a drug that 'breaks down proteins.'

It's a vaccine that's aimed at raising a T cell response specifically against some viral proteins.

CZroe said:
It sounds like a cure to me. You get sick, you take the medicine, it breaks down the virii's proteins and "kills" it. Unless it stays in your blood and fends off future attacks (that isn't what the OP says), it sounds more like a cure than a vaccine. Most vaccines work by triggering your immune system response to circulate antibodies before the live infection, which is not how this works at all.
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It's a vaccine. It works more through T cells than antibodies though, that's the big deal. It doesn't "break down viral proteins." It causes T cells to specifically recognized infected cells and kill them. This is the best known defense against any virus.

Mr. Pedantic said:
Is there a paper published on this yet? Seems pretty implausible TBH.
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http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/1.full
 
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