Vaccine could protect against virus linked to birth defects

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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41874/title/Vaccine_could_protect_against_virus_that_causes_birth_defects

"An experimental vaccine is effective half the time in stopping cytomegalovirus infection in women in their child-bearing years, researchers report in the March 19 New England Journal of Medicine.

No vaccine currently exists for cytomegalovirus, which can cause birth defects when it infects a pregnant woman. Because of this risk, vaccine researchers have targeted the virus for decades — without any clear benefit until now.

“This is the first vaccine that really shows prevention from infection with cytomegalovirus,” says Walla Dempsey, a microbiologist and immunologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md., who wasn’t a researcher on this study.

Most people get infected by cytomegalovirus as children and have few complications or even symptoms. Nearly two-thirds of women in child-bearing years have already been infected with cytomegalovirus.

But roughly 27,000 first-time cytomegalovirus infections occur in pregnant women in the United States every year. These women don’t harbor home-grown antibodies — generated from a previous infection — that would lower the risk of re-infection, says Robert Pass, an infectious disease pediatrician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who coauthored the new study. As a result, such women have a one-in-three chance of passing the virus along to their fetuses via the placenta. At birth, infected babies have an 11 percent chance of having symptoms that include hearing damage, visual impairment, mental retardation and diminished motor skills. "

[beam me up scottie]

1. Awesome!

K&R

[kestrel91316]

2. "Vaccines are the Devil's work!! Birth defects are preferable."

.......remarks expected from the anti-vaccine crowd in 3-2-1..........

[beam me up scottie]

3. Since it involves the reproductive organs of women, the religious reich-wing will be up in arms too.

Sad but predictable.

[xchrom]

4. recommend

[xchrom]

5. kick

[JustCommonSense]

6. Illness for profit = managed illness

with few cures - typically cures are suppressed...

Disease is BIG business

99% vaccines = quackery

If one studies for themselves they will find the truth of it

but this would require self thought... wow too much trouble for most folks

JustCommonSense

PS why is there mercury in vaccines? What are vaccines actually made of?

[EvolveOrConvolve]

7. Could you provide any proof for your nonsensical statements?

On edit: how long will you be around this time?

[JustCommonSense]

9. Nonsensical statements? Only to a closed mind who believes their programming

We are all free to believe what we wish...

I once believed such as you when I believed "what I was taught". (especially by "experts")

I found out the hard way... Then it opened my mind to see what else was true or not.. QUITE A SHOCKING JOURNEY...(and it continues)

Now as to your question "how long will you be around this time?"

You sir/madam have crossed the line accusing a stranger, shame on you...

I do not play games such as this, I stand behind my words! Any further attacks such as this and I will simply put you onto ignore.

JustCommonSense

[Neo Atheist]

13. please provide evidence that 99% of vaccines are quackery

And anything said by Jenny McCarthy or RFK jr. doesn't count.

By the way, does the fact that people who get the MMR vaccine don't get measles, mumps, or rubella unless they were exposed to the illness prior to getting the vaccine just burn your ass?

[varkam]

14. Closed mind? You're the troll that keeps popping back up.

Thank goodness the mods keep smacking you around.

[uppityperson]

12. 33 posts. eom

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Well, to borrow from a movie....

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[JustCommonSense]

10. Perm Ignore - I don't play games with flamers

[lizerdbits]

11. Thinking is so hard!

It's so much easier to believe in conspiracy theories.

Enjoy your stay!

KTHXBAI

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15. Man, someone must be intent

on cornering the market on granite.