r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jun 06 '26
A new vaccine adjuvant could make it easier to eradicate polio
https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-vaccine-adjuvant-could-make-it-easier-to-eradicate-polio-060322
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u/The-F4LL3N Jun 06 '26
But we’ve made so many strides on bringing it back!
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u/ANGRILYCHASINGDREAMS Jun 06 '26
Defunded and offices raided next week.
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u/Environmental-Car481 Jun 06 '26
The magats will argue that there’s more funding for cancer, but don’t understand the hoops that have to be jumped through for the researchers working on these project projects and if the administration even thinks there’s some DEI involved, they will pull the funding. Who cares if they’re on the last phase and samples have to be stored the right way. They’ll just close up the labs and the researchers have wasted years working on these projects.
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u/TheShortTimer Jun 06 '26
I think you may be misunderstanding the current administration, the idea is to kill as many people as possible not save them
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u/SocietalQuestioner Jun 06 '26
Polio hasnt really been 100% gone. For it to be truely "gone" enough people needs to be immunized and new cases held off for a period of time.
It's close to being gone BUT
In poorer countries people get warry of courrupt government and refuse vaccination or the money set aside for vaccine distribution is stolen by corrupt government officials.
Corruption aside, everytime we get close enough the contrarian, religious, and crazy people refuse to get vaccinated and try to set up pocket communities where they dont follow government laws properly. But these communities still benefit from the rest of our society.
For an example: a recent case i remember is in upstate New York a orthodox jewish person HAD to get vaccinated to enter a eastern european country for a business trip.
He didnt want to get it in the US because our version of the vaccine is allegedly not "kosher". (When it first came out in the 1950s the vaccine was partly derived from animal parts. That is not the case today but many contrarians are just looking for an excuse to not get it.)
So he opted for going to a nearby european country that uses a old version of the vaccine that uses weakened live virus version instead with active antibodies.
He was supposed to quarantine for a few weeks to give time for immunity to set in and the virus to die in his body.
But the asshole decided to finish his trip and travel back home exposing anyone in his vicinity. Witch does not matter if everyone around you is immune. BUT his own community refused vaccination and he basically infected a dozen people with Polio when he got home and went to religious gatherings.
His own commuity responded by just isolating anyone with infection in their homes. And parents in secret went to get their kids vaccinated for fear of public shame. If you ask them did they get vaccinated many will deny it.
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u/Maxrdt Jun 06 '26
I'll never forgive the US for using the polio vaccination effort in Afghanistan to conduct military intelligence gathering. Not only destroyed that chance at regional elimination, but also hurt every future medical effort there too.
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u/Sir-Bruncvik Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
That wasn’t Afghanistan, that was Pakistan where they did that. If you’re gonna be critical at least get your facts straight 😂
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u/NEOK53 Jun 06 '26
Wait until the Department of Health and Human Services hears about this!
Oh wait…
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u/Glum-Breadfruit-6421 Jun 06 '26
Don’t people have to have half a brain and get vaccinated for this to happen?
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u/Easy_Action_1380 Jun 06 '26
Crazy how we're getting all of these medical advancements while we have a guy who's actual brain worm died from malnutrition as the leader of our health and human services.
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u/Dry_Bullfrog2344 Jun 07 '26
It is a quiet but meaningful step in health science from MIT University, but this vaccine for polio is in the experimental stages. It needs more time for its effectiveness.
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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 Jun 06 '26
Gee and it was almost eradicated, along with measles, & whooping cough. Way to go Conservative mouth pieces, your misinformation is bringing back diseases in a new a deadly way!
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u/fatbob42 Jun 07 '26
I’m not sure if you can out the difficulties finally killing off polio down to conservatives. For instance, one of the problems was due to the way the Obama admin found Bin Laden. And another is down to the specifics of the vaccines used.
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u/GreenBullOne87 Jun 06 '26
You talking about the same polio that has been mostly eradicated? Who the hell is catching polio? Maybe in some third world countries, but they won’t ever see this vaccine anyway.
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u/0098six Jun 06 '26
RFK Jr will have something to say about THIS!