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We need a vaccine against exploding heart disease

One reason -
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Texashiker said:
Parasitic illness called Chagas, causes the victims heart to enlarge until the heart explodes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...gas-disease-cause-victims-hearts-explode.html

If the CDC makes a big deal out of chicken pox, why this exploding heart disease getting so little attention?

Its all fun and games until your buddies chest explodes during a sunday night football game.
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It's a lot harder to generate vaccines for eukaryotic parasites because they much more closely resemble human cells. It's the same reason we don't have a vaccine for malaria right now.
 
crashtestdummy said:
It's a lot harder to generate vaccines for eukaryotic parasites because they much more closely resemble human cells. It's the same reason we don't have a vaccine for malaria right now.
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Spot on. The similarities within eukaryotic creatures/species limits the potential for treatment. There's the cell wall, ribosomal sub units and the method for producing proteins are all roughly equivalent and those tend to be the 3 biggest targets for antibacterial drugs.
 
pelov said:
Spot on. The similarities within eukaryotic creatures/species limits the potential for treatment. There's the cell wall, ribosomal sub units and the method for producing proteins are all roughly equivalent and those tend to be the 3 biggest targets for antibacterial drugs.
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Excuses, all I see are excuses.

We need a vaccine against exploding heart disease, and a treatment for welfare parasites.
 
Viruses can be a huge PITA to make vaccines for. Some of them adapt so quickly that it's nigh impossible. Others have a method of encompassing themselves in the cell's own cell walls and wear the same glycoprotein markers so they float around and look like another cell as far as B and T-cells immune cells go.

Also, I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic 😛
 
pelov said:
Spot on. The similarities within eukaryotic creatures/species limits the potential for treatment. There's the cell wall, ribosomal sub units and the method for producing proteins are all roughly equivalent and those tend to be the 3 biggest targets for antibacterial drugs.
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Well, he did say "vaccine", not "treatment". But vaccines are also complicated, for different reasons.
 
Texashiker said:
Drug companies want to keep their profits up, so they hold certain medicine off the market.
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No. Actually it's sort of the same thinking but you've got it in the opposite direction.

Drug companies first look to what drugs they can potentially treat/cure that can make a lot of money. Prime candidates for $$ would be ailments that many people have -- depression, heart disease, weight loss, hair loss, the flu, etc. Because it costs so much money to get a drug to market (many trials and billions of $$. Yes, that's a b-illions) they don't bother with the more difficult stuff they can't sell.
 
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