Researchers have developed an "inverse vaccine" that is showing real promise against autoimmune diseases. This would be huge.
https://mag.uchicago.edu/science-med...ning-immunity#
Last edited by OldPhiKap; 03-26-2024 at 11:25 AM. Reason: title changed per thread originator request
My dad had MS. This would be HUGE.
All joking aside, this is AWESOME news. The application to autoimmune diseases really leaves your head spinning.
Hopefully your dad was able to enjoy some time where all the kids had the chicken pox vaccine. We were talking about "pox parties" the other day and my kids (8 and 11) were like WTF? Was that actually a thing??!! Old people are weird.
Did you call it Ookie Mouth?
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Yes, he got chicken pox when my older brothers got it and then later when I got it. Unfortunately, he died in 2021 of a rare autoimmune disease called autoimmune hemolytic anemia. With AIHA the body basically attacks it's own red blood cells. It was terrible. Relatively healthy one day and on death's doorstep the next. He lived 31 days and required 72 units of blood during those 30 days. Frustratingly, AIHA is relatively easy to treat for most people, but he was resistant to protocols A,B,C,D and E.
I'm the furthest thing that you will find from an anti-vaxxer, but the hospital made me submit my dad's case to the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) system. He became sick shortly after the second dose of Moderna. I was contacted by the CDC. They told me that they could not rule out that his reaction was not from the vaccine. Interestingly, I have found several confirmed cases since my dad died. I wonder if this treatment would have helped him. Maybe.
I wonder if this might lead to humble cures, as well, like a cure for alopecia or Hashimoto's thyroiditis, both of which affect family members of mine. That wouldn't be as huge a breakthrough as something like MS, of course, but might it might also be easier to try something highly targeted like that as proof of principle.
Such great news. I forwarded this article to a friend with rheumatoid arthritis, and another whose 8 y/o has Type I. Both were cautiously ecstatic.
Many thanks to the OP.
Speaking of health game-changers, I only found out the other day that they developed a 90% cure for cystic fibrosis a couple years ago. How was this not bigger news? Or did I just miss the headlines somehow?
The American Democracy Experiment - fun while it lasted.
There is a treatment for alopecia.
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-re...nib-adults-and
https://www.litfulo.com/
Rich
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