https://www.hiv.gov/blog/encouraging-first-in-human-results-for-a-promising-hiv-vaccine/
An HIV vaccine is in human trials
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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The best thing for my family was that we were in St Jude with our daughter while the rest of the world lost their minds. I was able to speak directly to Infectious Disease doctors that had nothing to do with anything but researching for cancer patients. They had worked with the original doctors for the Covid vaccine, and how long it had been in development as we learned more about the disease. People were just going off ignorance. Just because you don't know, doesn't mean everyone else is trying to lie to you.
Does this person think cancer is a virus?
Why do I suspect they don't even know what a virus is? Like they hear the word on the news but have no idea what it means, they just know virus means disease and never cared to learn about the underlying biology.
Cancer can be caused by a virus, but it can also be caused by other things.
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They've been working on a COVID vaccine since the SARS epidemic, but that fact won't stop the stupid.
Also, cancer isn’t one disease but a whole class of diseases. And we actually do have vaccines that prevent certain forms of cancer, like the HPV vaccine.
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Vaccines are typically meant to protect against viruses or bacteria. Cancer is neither of those. hiv is a virus but the political will to produce effective treatments was not always there. I think a lot of young people underestimate the homophobia that was pervasive not all that long ago and how it was tied to the aids epidemic.
There are some promising efforts for vaccines against cancer. It's teaching your immune system to kill cells that were supposed to die on their own. It's a relatively recent development, though.
Plus, as should always be stated with cancer treatments, there is no singular "cancer". It's a class of related problems that need to be handled individually. Vaccine against prostate cancer shouldn't be expected to work against breast cancer. Anything that claims to cure cancer in a blanket way should be treated with great suspicion.
The mrna vaccines that allowed us to quickly target covid were under development for targeting cancers. We all got super lucky to be honest.
I mean also isn't the hpv vaccine kinda functionally a cancer vaccine
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"Things I don't understand make me scared!"
I remember when the anti GMO, anti pharma, anti vaxx nuts were the fringe of the fringe left and now they're mainstream conservatism sigh
It's the woo to Q pipeline.
Let's not get it twisted, you grouped all those like it's the same. I believe in science and vaccines, but fuck big pharma with a rust pole.
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AiDS destroys the immune system, you CAN'T make a vaccine for it.
Once destroyed definitely... But couldn't a vaccine prevent it from getting to that point?
That would be an HIV Vaccine
Well, some vaccines are therapeutic in nature, where it's beneficial to take it while you have symptoms. Some vaccines are only helpful before you get a symptom, for example rabies.
I guess the above made it sound like there definitely can't be a therapeutic vaccine. But unclear about a preventative vaccine.
Their point is AIDS is the syndrome you get after it is too late and your immune system no longer works. The vaccine would be for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Oh gotcha
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There are some experimental cures that do seem to work at least in rats. But yeah there's no vaccine you just have to get sick and then get the cure and hope it works.
And also be a rat.
There's a cervical cancer vaccine
Technically there's a vaccine for HPV, which has been shown to be one of the leading causes of cervical cancer. However, it is believed that at least 80% of women will have HPV sometime in their life and the cervical cancer rate is no where near that. Thus the vaccine only decreases the risk, it is not a vaccine for cervical cancer though.
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They found a 100% effective way to place microchips on our bodies within just 10 months? Damn, I didn't know science had advanced that much.
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These clueless twats think they are very smart.
In fact, there are vaccines against some cancer types. There's a virus, which is responsible for almost all womb cancer cases. Here in Germany, the vaccine is free, if you're under 20 iirc.
The HPV vaccine will pretty much make cirvical cancer a thing of the past too.
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The worst part about this is that the MRNA tech used in the COVID vaccine was developed specifically to make cancer vaccines.
And mRNA vaccine technology has been advancing for decades. It's disingenuous to suggest that "it only took ten months."
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So many fucking dumbasses in this world. Fucking smh. Fucking pieces of shit.
Circlejerk ragebait thread.
I man there's been so much research towards AIDS that it's not the death sentence that it was in the 80s.
However, there probably would have been even more progress had Reagan not stifled progress
Yeah I was going to say the reason there hasn't been significant progress on a HIV virus isn't because it isn't possible but because for the longest time the bodies that could provide funding for the research thought HIV killing 'the gays' was a desirable outcome....
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Why the fuck are these idiots so weirdly obsessed with Gates. He's a fuckin' retired OS monger, not a supermegapolyscientist
he's really rich and has paid lip service to liberal ideas, that's enough
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Ignorance appears to be like rabies in at least one way, once it rots enough of your brain you become fearful of anything and everything around you.
That's apples, oranges, and ...passion fruits. They're simply not the same. Besides, it's quite pessimistic to imagine that the effort scientists have put into vaccine development, and all knowledge acquired, haven't taught us a trick or two.
it's not that they are stupid, they are attention hungry losers that will believe manufactured drivel like this because it makes them feel special, because they have "knowledge" that unenlightened masses don't, and they prefer it over reality
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