Human Trials of Alzheimer's Vaccine to Begin

tarheelhockey

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This is a really interesting concept now that I look into the details. Basically triggering the immune system to attack a non-viral issue, which it otherwise wouldn't recognize.

Let's all have our fingers crossed, it would be a huge deal to find a way to fight this awful disease.
 

beowulf

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This is a really interesting concept now that I look into the details. Basically triggering the immune system to attack a non-viral issue, which it otherwise wouldn't recognize.

Let's all have our fingers crossed, it would be a huge deal to find a way to fight this awful disease.

I remember from an old episodes of the Nature of Things with David Suzuki on CBC here in Canada that there is a lot of research going on that a number of virus could be the cause, or one of the causes, of the disease. Are infections seeding some cases of Alzheimer’s disease?
 
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HFBS

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It may be interesting but we now have a significant amount of people who refuse to take a vaccine for something that spreads like wildfire and has killed 5 million + in less than two years. How many people would be willing to take a a vaccine for an infinitely rarer disease they might only contract in their relative old age? Listen, I hope it works but the world has changed and this is the new reality.
 

HanSolo

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My mom is terrified that this is how she'll go. Her mom died of Alzheimer's. By the end my grandma forgot everyone but my mom.

I hope this works.
 

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