alt Hacker NewsSingle vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus
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> It is given as a nasal spray and leaves white blood cells in our lungs – called macrophages – on "amber alert" and ready to jump into action no matter what infection tries to get in.
Right and if that is such a good thing why are those macrophages not always on alert. I smell longterm cancer or similar.
We shouldn't call it a vaccine when, in fact, it's just a line of cocaine for macrophages.
this isnt exactly a vaccine its more like prophylactic immunoinduction.
"toll like receptors"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7173040/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135964462...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40364-022-00436-7
Isn't this how "I Am Legend" started?
I wonder how long before this gets defunded too?
This sounds like a great way to create an autoimmune disease.
why do they call it a vaccine, its nothing like that...
there's probably a reason evolution didnt put the immune system on permanent "amber alert" as they call it in the article
Even if it worked perfectly, I would be worried that an unexercised immune system would turn on me.
I'll be fascinated to see how this plays out for people with autoimmune conditions - generalised heightening of the immune system feels like it would be dangerous for those people. Are any immunologists lurking who might be able to speculate?
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US: Quits the WHO, ends funding of medical research
The world: Announces cures for half a dozen cancers, and the common cold
My favorite twitter account was “in mice” which just posted stories like this and added “in mice”. Which applies here.