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Remember this thread is discussing VACCINE DERIVED POLIO!
A vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV)
In this situation, the demand for OPV was driven by a number of administrative and subjective factors. Western opinion on OPV had shifted dramatically and quickly over the course of 1960 and 1961. This was further helped when OPV was used to help to deal with an epidemic in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, in late summer 1961. Hundreds of thousands of people were immunised during the outbreak, and the vaccine’s apparent success in containing the spread cemented its reputation.107 The subjective demand for the state to provide protection against poliomyelitis was evident. Even in the absence of an oral alternative, people were still demanding IPV during the summer epidemics. Nevertheless, administrative pressure, driven by public opinion, appeared to be pushing toward OPV in the long term. Despite variations in the exact administrative demand within the programme over time, the issue was not over whether polio immunisation should be provided but over the form that it should take.
Since 2004, the UK has used an inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which provides strong protection against the disease polio, but less protection against circulation of the virus – something that would not normally be an issue in a country where it is eradicated.
So what would you define extracting the genetic code of a virus then implementing it to create a therapy which is injected into another organism, which then modified RNA?
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: Grenade
You picture a world without big pharmaceutical companies and it would indeed be hell on Earth for a lot off poor sods.
No insulin, no blood-thinners like warfarin, no operations or treatments for the masses.
They are unfortunately a necessary evil in today's world, kind of like the government or Police force.