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To: djf

100% effective?

Even the flu shot is only about 60% effective most years. Almost NOTHING is 100% effective.

Smells like BS from the start.


6 posted on 07/31/2015 6:09:06 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Even the flu shot is only about 60% effective most years. Almost NOTHING is 100% effective.

The low effectiveness of the influenza vaccine is a result of the high variability of the virus. There are countless variants of the flu virus, and the vaccine can only protect people from 3 or 4 of them. In addition to the many variants of influenza virus, the virus constantly changes itself so that the immune system does not recognize it, making a previously immune person no longer immune. Virus changes are why the flu vaccine was so ineffective this year.

Ebola, on the other hand, is a fairly stable virus. In the 40 or so years since Ebola was first identified, the virus has hardly changed at all. Thus, if a vaccine can be developed that causes immunity to Ebola, almost everyone will become immune upon receiving the vaccine. Measles vaccine, for example, achieves over 99% immunity after two doses.

8 posted on 07/31/2015 6:16:44 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Red in Blue PA

To measure 4,000 test as effective, that would require intentionally exposing 4,000 people to Ebola.

I doubt that a lot.


11 posted on 07/31/2015 6:22:24 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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