Originally posted by: gardes
Thanks for the informative scientific news. 2 things happened since I read your warning in Vrindavan Times:
Always being on the leading edge of jounalism (VT had the first ever interview with the mad cow last week and excerpts were printed in the forum), I just signed up for a lifetime subscription to Vrindavan Times.
I am very happy to accept your subscription to Vrindavan Times. The reporter and the editor has spent the weekend talking to a very learned fellow who has given the editor a very interesting perspective of life. So I am sure that more thought provoking and interesting articles will be publshed in the future.
US, being a leader in clinical research, has a new vaccine now. I convinced my hubby to sign up for the experimental vaccine to counter the effect of Vishakha Mad Cow Disease. He has a built in immunity generally speaking, but I could not see him suffer if he came into close proximity of the VMC!
I am very happy that you have managed to enlist your husband for this vaccine but there is a big loop hole in this vaccine developement. I don't know whether you are aware but this current vaccine under going clinical trails was developed against a single outer protein of VMC and not the entire VMC, so none of the scientists are sure whether this is a foolproof method or not. A single protein might work completely differently to the whole VMC. So you need to be aware of that. The other point is that the vaccine has to be injected directly into the cranial cavity. I don't know whether your husband will be ok with this procedure. He cannot be administered general anthesthetia because the person needs to be in his senses when the vaccine is being administered.