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Subject: Getting Sick from Medicine - Vaccines
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Date: 7 Apr 90 16:47:36 GMT
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In article <33978@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lima@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Bruce Lima) writes:
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>going on with a disease that might not show up for 7 years?  Jonas Salk
>claims to have come up with (or be close to) a vacination.  That could be
>interesting, as with any vaccine, a certain percentage of the population
>contract the disease from the shot...; a small percentage, but how small
>is small enough?  Would you take the shot for a .0004 chance of comming
>down with the disease?  There's a certain amount of risk on the road to
>immunity.

This is NOT correct.  "with any vaccine" is a misstatement.  If a vaccine
uses actual killed virus, yes, there exists a possibility that live virues
will exist.  However, not all vaccines use killed virus.  Polio, for
instance, probably the instance you are thinnking of, did use a killed
virus.   If the virus is genetically changed, there may be a possibility of
getting a similar disease, but not the same disease.  If a vaccine is
designed with a protein envelope, or a mock protein to fool the immune
system, there is NO possibility of contracting the disease from it.  (There
does exist a possibility, however, it will be ineffective in some or all
cases, which is why the vaccines currently being tested are being tested -
not to insure their safety, but to guage their effectiveness.  I may be
unaware of a killed-virus trial going on at this time, however.)

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