But you can’t ‘nip it in the bud’ when the virus you’re vaccinating against has tens, dozens or even hundreds of different strains circulating in the wild type.
It’s why Prevnar started as Prevnar 7 then Prevnar 13 and now moving towards Prevnar 30 something.
And the kids you saved by vaccinating against the first strain you used die when they contract the second strain they’re NOT immune against.
And a lot of other people besides.
How many people’s lives were in danger when penicillin stopped working. Thank God for 2nd gen antibiotics.
Only with vaccines, there ARE no 2nd generation treatments if the first gen fail. And we’d have to rely on the CDC to tell us the truth about it and then do something about it. Given their agenda seems to be concerned more with gun control and other ‘non disease’ issues I think I have a right to be concerned with this strategy.
The best that happens with that strategy is everyone gets a booster for everything every year or two. I’ll tell you right now, you just THINK our upcoming version of the NHS is expensive now. Wait for that to become commonplace. vaxing 100m out of 300m people every year (assuming a booster was good for 3 years) for mmr, dtap, hepb, and everything else on the current schedule would cost easily $500 per person. $500 X 100m == $50B. Every year. Just for that one program. And you’re still chasing moving targets with every single one of those vaxs.
And then there’s this line of research:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24238833
Penicillin. How many lives have been saved using it? It is foolish to not use it now because it might be ineffective in the future.
And the efficacy of antibiotics might have more to do with people not taking it properly (not finishing the prescription). Not using the drug itself.