Adjuvant combo shows potential for universal influenza vaccine

Adjuvant combo shows potential for universal influenza vaccine

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Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered how to prime a second arm of the immune system to ... boost influenza vaccine effectiveness. A combination of two adjuvants, chemicals used to boost the effectiveness of some vaccines, induced CD8, or killer, T cells to join antibodies in response to influenza infection. Since the killer T cells targeted a highly conserved protein that does not change from year to year, the adjuvant strategy suggests potential for a universal flu vaccine.

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Now the preservatives in vaccines, the adjuvants, and the active substances make a cocktail which to this day remains somewhat mysterious in their precise operation...

Aluminum salts, or alum, have been used for nearly a century as an adjuvant to boost the effectiveness of many vaccines. Surprisingly no one is sure even today exactly how it works. The only other adjuvant approved for use in the United States, monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), is used by GlaxoSmithKline to boost the antibody response of some of its vaccines.

It appears that despite many objections in communities which do not adhere to what the medical community calls "evidence-based medical research' and fears about the long-term or unintended side-effects, researchers are not pursuing (or not being paid to pursue) solutions to vaccination challenges without adjuvants.... instead the key is more adherence to the adjuvant strategy... and in this case MORE adjuvants instead of less.

They found that unvaccinated mice lost about 15 percent of their body weight in the first eight days after infection, then regained some of that weight by 20 days after infection. Mice whose vaccines contained either alum or MPL adjuvants lost less weight but did not fully regain their original weight. Mice whose vaccines contained both adjuvants together lost about 5 percent of their original weight and regained it all back rapidly.
The researchers also found that mice receiving vaccines with both adjuvants had the fewest viral particles in their lungs four days after infection.

The question becomes... shouldn't we understand how something works before we declare a victory in this regard.... or are we to believe that more inorganic additives is better?

Current influenza vaccines use antigens against two proteins on the viral surface, neuraminidase (N), and hemagglutinin (H), to which antibodies can bind. Because these cell-surface proteins mutate frequently, new vaccines must be formulated each year to recognize a viral strains.

Killer T cells instead recognize viral fragments displayed on the surface of infected cells. The researchers used as their vaccine a fragment from the viral nucleus, which rarely changes. This suggests the possible development of a universal flu vaccine that would not have to be reformulated and administered every year.

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Lets not forget mercury-based preservatives are used in the vaccines as well. Mercury in vaccines are 5 times the safe limit set by the CDC. And this is being injected into our children and elderly....sad.

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world-wide influenza vaccine sounds extremely odd to me, I am a conspiracy theorist knowing this I can rip this apart on so many levels, however I need mention 1 reason I would never-ever take a flu shot let alone a world-wide vaccine and the reason is, "perfect way to depopulate the entire world in one sweep" leaving the most smart to live in a new lifestyle
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