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...seldom see them on the cover of Prevention Magazine, but vaccines are the great prevention success story of modern medicine. They are not perceived as new or sexy; they have been around since the days of George Washington, when Edward Jenner first scraped the scabs from milkmaids infected with cowpox to inoculate people against smallpox. By the end of the 20th century, vaccines had conquered many of man's most dreaded plagues, eliminating smallpox and all but wiping out mumps, measles, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio, at least in the developed world. Vaccines had done their work so well...
That hasn't worked so far for deadly diseases like tuberculosis, malaria or AIDS, in part because no model for natural immunity exists for any of them. Thus scientists cannot crib from nature for vaccines, as Jenner did for smallpox. But that is changing as researchers get a sense of how many instruments in the immune-system orchestra they have at their disposal, and how to get the best performance from them. With HIV, for example, the virus mutates too rapidly. No sooner has the acquired immune system learned to identify and lock in on it than HIV develops...
...city has signed on a major Washington law firm, Jenner and Block, to try its case—which it will pursue if and when the House redistricting plan passes through the Senate and is signed into law, according to Terrence F. Smith, the mayor’s chief of staff...
...Jenner and Block represents democrats in their redistricting battles nationwide, according to Assistant Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken...
...Jenner and Block] specializes in redistricting,” said Gerken, who worked for the firm before coming to Harvard. “These guys are the best in the business...