SARS VACCINE READY FOR TESTING ON ANIMALS (HONG KONG)

Fox News ^ | 27 May 2003

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

TAIPEI, Taiwan

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

If this works, wonderful!!! Interesting that they came up with a vaccine so fast...however, it was almost essential that something be done quick.

[xkaydet65]

Interesting because they may have been working on a vaccine for some time. Say three or four years.

[Principled]

What will PETA do? Protest the experimental use on animals or excercise the ability to be silent?

[flamefront]

My, such pharmaceutical poficiency the ChiComs show here. Everyone else in the West was talking about years before a vaccine.

Makes you really wonder about how the Chinese might perform if they wanted to make bioweapons, as in China Linked To Iraq Bio-Weapons.

This is a lose-lose situation for the ChiComs even if they succeed.

[flamefront]

ping

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

What will PETA do? Protest the experimental use on animals or excercise the ability to be silent?

Oh, that's good.

[aristeides]

What makes you say they have been working on the vaccine for years?

I think more likely the speed reflects how quickly a medical product can come to market when the threat from not using it is so great that the possible side-effects of the product can be ignored.

[aristeides]

Canada can't handle outbreaks: Doctors.

[aristeides]

China, Hong Kong combine to develop SARS vaccine .

[aristeides]

China withheld vital information from Finnish SARS victim: HS investigation shows that hundreds were exposed to SARS due to concealment of flight information.

[Smile-n-Win]

What will PETA do? Protest the experimental use on animals or excercise the ability to be silent?

Whatever they do, it's a lose-lose situation for them...

[aristeides]

Laurie Mylroie on research: On the Road To a SARS Cure in China: Nation’s research community makes major contributions.

[aristeides]

Laurie Mylroie on shortage of respirators and hospital spaces in China: Sick With SARS But Snubbed By Hospitals Chinese student can't get aid as promised. Hope this isn't prophetic of what will be happening in this country.

[heleny]

an activated strain of SARS coronavirus was now ready to be tested in animals as a tentative vaccine

activated? more likely, they mean an inactivated virus.

Interesting that they came up with a vaccine so fast

Without more details, this could be as simple as dead viruses. Some older vaccines were developed by using weakened viruses, although the weakening process may be complicated to ensure that the vaccines are safe. There's no telling if this experiment will be fruitful at all, but I hope so. This approach did not work for HIV yet, but the polio, smallpox, measles, influenza, and rabies vaccines may have been developed from weakened, though not dead, viruses.

Experimenting on animals with weakened or inactivated viruses does not necessarily mean they have studied the problem extensively, especially when scientists have already isolated and identified the virus. Influenza vaccines only take about a year to develop, since the flu is different each year.

[Judith Anne]

Those are good articles you posted. I don't have much time to comment, but I appreciate the reading.

[aristeides]

SARS spurs ban on wild-animal imports.

[Dog Gone]

That's a pretty damning article about the Canadian health system.

[Prince Charles]

Good article at that link. Bttt.

[Prince Charles]

Very informative article on ChiCom lies. Bttt.

[cricket]

"If this works, wonderful!!! Interesting that they came up with a vaccine so fast...however, it was almost essential that something be done quick."

. . .think this is more PR than a genuine cure. China is desperate. . .