rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge) (04/07/90)
In article <33978@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lima@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Bruce Lima) writes: >> >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.) > >-- >************************************************************************* >* DISCLAIMER:No Way, Man! It was somebody else! I'm not responsible * >* for nobody but me, and nobody's responsible for me....not even me! * >************************************************************************* >* SIGNATURE: That's Lima as in Peru, * email is lima@uts.amdahl.com * >* but "They call me Bruce!" * -My number is (408)746-6493 * >************************************************************************* -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rick Rutledge {hoptoad|ucsfcca|claris}!wet!rick rick@wet.UUCP "Who needs `rational` when your toes curl up?" -Dr. Beverly Crusher, _Star Trek_