October 18, 2011
— DrewM As Sheriff Joe would say, this is a Big F'n Deal.
The eagerly awaited study involving more than 15,000 newborns and babies in seven African countries found the vaccine cut the risk of being infected with the malaria parasite by about half and the chances of getting deathly ill from an infection by more than a third.While far below the protection provided by many widely used vaccines for other diseases, the results were hailed as a major advance toward one of the most elusive goals in medicine.
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Caused by parasites that are transmitted by infected mosquitoes, malaria sickens more than 200 million people each year and kills nearly 800,000, mostly children in Africa. Controlling malaria has long been one of the top goals of international public health authorities.
It's cost about $500 million to develop which is an amazingly small amount of money compared to the good it will do if this pans out. About $300 million came from the Gates Foundation and the rest from government grants evilllll big pharma (I wonder what the Occupy Wall St. crowd will say about that).
No word on whether or not the vaccine causes retardation in presidential candidates but making that kind of dent would be a huge breakthrough in public health.
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Posted by: Union of Concerned Environazis at October 18, 2011 01:24 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Guvnah at October 18, 2011 01:25 PM (Rg8DN)
Posted by: Dr Spank at October 18, 2011 01:25 PM (L8TIZ)
Posted by: nevergiveup at October 18, 2011 01:26 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: al-Cicero, Tea Party Jihadist at October 18, 2011 01:26 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Random at October 18, 2011 01:27 PM (YiE0S)
If only there was some chemical you could use to kill the mosquitoes that carry this foul disease then we would be on to something.
Sorry, forgot to Massengill.
Posted by: zombie Rachel Carson at October 18, 2011 01:27 PM (3SvjA)
No word on whether or not the vaccine causes retardation in presidential candidates
Studies have shown that inhaling a mixture of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% trace gases will do that.
Posted by: malclave at October 18, 2011 01:27 PM (W1Ndc)
Posted by: DarkLord© sez Obama is a stuttering clusterf--- of a miserable failure
Oh, and F--- Nevada! at October 18, 2011 01:28 PM (GBXon)
Do you want really to return to the era of overly-thin egg shells? Well, do you?
Posted by: Rachel Carson at October 18, 2011 01:28 PM (QKKT0)
As a big government scientist myself, I will tell you that if you have a tightly focused program with a clear goal like this, I would much rather have a Bill Gates in charge than the folks I work with. Nothing wrong with those folks, but they have different skill sets. Gates, whatever his other faults, is about bringing a product to market. I just hope this isn't the Vista vaccine.
Posted by: pep at October 18, 2011 01:28 PM (6TB1Z)
We must somehow find a way to block this madness.
Posted by: John Holdren and his ilk at October 18, 2011 01:28 PM (z81NF)
Posted by: didn't take long at October 18, 2011 01:28 PM (lpWVn)
Why not just develop and deploy automatic micro-laser systems that are programmed to target mosquitos? They wouldn't solve the problem at first, but as more are deployed over the years, we'd get more and more mosquitoes all the time.
Posted by: Random at October 18, 2011 01:29 PM (YiE0S)
Posted by: Boston12GS at October 18, 2011 01:29 PM (hvrPG)
The same thing they say about everything, "Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 18, 2011 01:29 PM (Hx5uv)
Posted by: nevergiveup at October 18, 2011 01:30 PM (i6RpT)
Posted by: Michele Bachmann at October 18, 2011 01:30 PM (L8TIZ)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at October 18, 2011 01:30 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Shitty twisted lightbulb that costs too much... at October 18, 2011 01:31 PM (O3f8/)
But wait.. most of the funding came from Bill Gates.. I guess we gots other priorities.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 18, 2011 01:31 PM (f9c2L)
Posted by: Rachel Carson
As thin as the ice you are on, Bitch?
Posted by: zombie Rachel Carson at October 18, 2011 01:31 PM (3SvjA)
Solyndra? Is that you?
Posted by: cherry pi at October 18, 2011 01:31 PM (OhYCU)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at October 18, 2011 01:31 PM (8y9MW)
Posted by: mallfly at October 18, 2011 01:32 PM (bJm7W)
I hope she is rotting in the seventh circle of hell.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at October 18, 2011 01:32 PM (K6bNI)
Posted by: #OWS at October 18, 2011 01:32 PM (ggRof)
Posted by: Algore, Scientific Expert In All Things Sciencey at October 18, 2011 01:32 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Spiker at October 18, 2011 01:32 PM (zgoYu)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at October 18, 2011 01:33 PM (ieDPL)
Posted by: ktgreat at October 18, 2011 01:33 PM (hqGID)
Posted by: mallfly at October 18, 2011 01:34 PM (bJm7W)
Erm, have you mentioned this to anyone else? Publicized it anywhere? No? We need to talk.
Posted by: DARPA at October 18, 2011 01:34 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: izoneguy at October 18, 2011 01:34 PM (i6Neb)
Posted by: polynikes - Texan for Romney at October 18, 2011 01:35 PM (i9cTu)
Posted by: nevergiveup at October 18, 2011 01:36 PM (i6RpT)
That's slander. Everyone knows he has terminal syphilis.
Posted by: DARPA at October 18, 2011 01:36 PM (6TB1Z)
Remember a couple of years ago when BILL GATES released THOUSANDS of MOSQUITOES on an unsuspecting crowd to prove a STUPID POINT?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at October 18, 2011 01:36 PM (sqkOB)
We must somehow find a way to block this madness.
Posted by: John Holdren
.................
I hate to say this.. but the West keeps providing more and more ways to keep Africans dying from diseases, only to see the populations rise by millions.. millions that the land cannot sustain.
We should be giving birth control along with the life-saving meds. I know that sounds cruel and heartless, but is it any worse than seeing the lines of starving refugees and dying, emaciated babies?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 18, 2011 01:36 PM (f9c2L)
Posted by: John Holdren & Paul Ehrlich at October 18, 2011 01:37 PM (REXkU)
Posted by: izoneguy at October 18, 2011 05:34 PM (i6Neb)
I'm running XP, and have been forever. It works pretty damned well.
Plus, Google has supplanted Microsoft as the ultimate evil technology company.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at October 18, 2011 01:37 PM (K6bNI)
Remember when some A-Hole threw a CREAM PIE in Bill Gates' face and Gates reacted like a BIG PUSSY?
Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at October 18, 2011 01:37 PM (sqkOB)
Tangentially related, but I remember when a pistol-wielding nutjob charged the stage on which Prince Chaaaaahles was speaking. The guy stuck his hand in his pocket and looked disdainfully in the nutjob's direction, but didn't flinch or duck. Charles is an idiot, but that, my friends, is what made Great Britain great.
Posted by: pep at October 18, 2011 01:41 PM (6TB1Z)
Human population gets controlled in three main ways. We've made great inroads on plague and famine. The third, however...well, let's just say our innovations go in the other direction...
Posted by: DarkLord© sez Obama is a stuttering clusterf--- of a miserable failure
Oh, and F--- Nevada! at October 18, 2011 01:43 PM (GBXon)
Posted by: didn't take long at October 18, 2011 01:44 PM (lpWVn)
Posted by: AndrewsDad at October 18, 2011 01:45 PM (C2//T)
Posted by: RAAAAACIST! TeaParty Terrorist Hobbit from the Shire of New Hamp at October 18, 2011 01:46 PM (4V+hs)
Posted by: FlaviusJulius at October 18, 2011 01:46 PM (ieDPL)
Posted by: Military-Industrial Complex at October 18, 2011 01:57 PM (zgoYu)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 18, 2011 02:01 PM (UlUS4)
To the anti-vaccine crowd...piss off.
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at October 18, 2011 02:04 PM (iYbLN)
The so-called "Eco Lobby" (which is much more a "voluntary human extinction" movement)
Voluntary? The only reason the Eco-nutbags don't take more......active measures IYKWIMAITTYD is that they're too pussified to get blood directly on their hands.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 18, 2011 02:06 PM (o1ki4)
Posted by: Military-Industrial Complex at October 18, 2011 02:11 PM (zgoYu)
Posted by: Barely Obama at October 18, 2011 02:13 PM (VQCqZ)
Actually, this helps with the overpopulation problem. The single most effective form of birth control ever found is wealth. It works so well that the wealthiest peoples on the planet are in danger of going extinct for lack of interest in having children, as noted at length by Mark Steyn in 'America Alone.'
High infant mortality is very expensive. It is no coincidence that the West started to get wealthy as it got better at securing food supplies and adept at preventing common causes of childhood death and disability.
When infant mortality decreases the level of investment per child grows and things like basic education become more common.
I'm currently reading 1493 by Charles Mann. It goes into depth about how the import of malaria (among other diseases) made the early colonization period in North America a very rough slog. It also created the conditions where importing African slaves became valuable in spite of moral objections. African slaves were actually more expensive than imported Europeans or enslaved Indians but they had the unbeatable feature of resistance to the form of malaria most affecting the region.
(Interestingly, it is also noted the Indians in the north were less inclined to the practice of slavery while those in the South were much more inclined to it, possibly influencing the southern colonist to take advantage of that before the African slave trade started crossing the Atlantic. A precursor of the Mason-Dixon line existed before Europeans were involved.)
Posted by: epobirs at October 18, 2011 02:15 PM (kcfmt)
1 in 1000 siezes, not bad unless your number is 1 in 1000.
Many of you smart fucks think the gardisil shit is real funny. I would remind you there are over 100 strains of HPV. Guardisil is set up to deal with 4.
Posted by: nip at October 18, 2011 02:16 PM (OHY/W)
Posted by: steevy at October 18, 2011 02:20 PM (fyOgS)
1 in 1000 siezes, not bad unless your number is 1 in 1000.
Many of you smart fucks think the gardisil shit is real funny. I would remind you there are over 100 strains of HPV. Guardisil is set up to deal with 4.
Posted by: nipDon't ever get tired of being the sad, unhappy d-bag clown at the party?
Posted by: mpfs, TPT at October 18, 2011 02:21 PM (iYbLN)
Posted by: Jean at October 18, 2011 02:23 PM (+oKKW)
Would the extra surviving children allow for more farm hands to raise sufficient food? Or are we looking at solving one horrible problem and demographically moving unto another?
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston training for the ONT mudwrestling match at October 18, 2011 02:32 PM (ijjAe)
Posted by: MDH3 at October 18, 2011 03:12 PM (GKyUC)
72:
"1 in 1000 siezes, not bad unless your number is 1 in 1000.
Many of you smart fucks think the gardisil shit is real funny. I would remind you there are over 100 strains of HPV. Guardisil is set up to deal with 4."
A) The seizures tend to be self-limited and non-life threatening. MUCH less serious/dangerous than contracting malaria.
B) There are actually approximately 150 strains of HPV. Of these, about 15 are considered "high risk" for cervical, anal, and/or oral cancer. Of those 15, TWO strains, namely 16 and 18, account for 70% of cervical cancers and 85% of anal cancers; HPV Type 16 accounts for virtually 100% of HPV-associated oral cancers.
Gardisil is effective in preventing infections from HPV Type 16 and Type 18. It also prevents infection from HPV Types 6 and 11, which cause 90% of genital warts. Besides being eyesores, these are also thought to be precursors to many of the cancers NOT caused by Types 16 and 18.
Gardisil, like any other human endeavor, is not perfect. But it's a damn sight better than doing nothing at all.
Except for that retardation thing...
Posted by: Dr. Brumby at October 18, 2011 04:26 PM (wQ9jX)
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Posted by: Van Gogh epub at October 18, 2011 04:48 PM (qXcfI)
Hello, Square One.
Posted by: Cripes Suzette at October 18, 2011 05:26 PM (RO+Ee)
78-Yes, is the short answer.
I still do not think it is funny, and it is still a bummer if your kid seizes up.
Posted by: nip at October 18, 2011 06:11 PM (OHY/W)
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Posted by: zombie Rachel Carson at October 18, 2011 01:23 PM (3SvjA)