Posted on 07/10/2009 7:55:29 PM PDT by JavaJumpy
Excerpted from your link:
May. 18, 2009
Purdue scientist races to create H1N1 flu vaccine
In a laboratory at Purdue University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Suresh Mittal and his research assistants are working against time to develop a vaccine for the H1N1 influenza A virus. Purdue is one of eight to 10 organizations to which the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has sent H1N1 genetic material for developing a vaccine, said CDC spokesman Erik Friedly.
“We are using two pieces of DNA fragment, one from the H1N1 and one from a common cold virus, the adenovirus,” Mittal said. The adenovirus carries the H1N1 gene but does not cause disease in humans and does not replicate. The DNA from both viruses is purified. Enzymes are used to tie the two viruses together “and we create a new virus inside the cells using the purified DNA complement.”
For us, it’s not like the cervical cancer vaccine. My daughters have 0% chance of getting cervical cancer because they are not sexually active.
They have a huge risk of complications from swine flu. They both almost died of a respiratory illness. One of my daughters gets bad asthma just from a cold, and it’s worse when it’s the flu (which she has had a few times even with a vaccine). My other daughter has a brain injury (with seizures), a heart arrhythmia, and some immunity problems.
Considering how they killed people with their last vaccine, I don’t want it = I forget when that was, obviously I didn’t get the vaccine or the flu so I’m still here. :)
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