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...most cost-effective way to treat polio is to continue vaccinations until the virus has been eradicated, according to a study released yesterday by two researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Since 1988 the number of polio cases worldwide has declined by 99 percent. The small number of cases has led some public health officials to suggest that it would be cheaper to treat the virus on an individual basis than to continue widespread preventive immunization...
...Paralytic polio, the condition caused by the wild polio virus, claimed its last victim in the United States in 1979 and the number of incidents worldwide was under 2,000 in 2006, according to a statement from an earlier study. But the virus has yet to be eliminated in some parts of the developed world...
...cancer vaccine is not like the measles shot you get as a kid. Instead of inoculating a healthy person against a foreign body like a virus, cancer vaccines use parts of tumors to help the patients' immune systems recognize diseased cells. Follicular lymphoma, a generally slow-moving cancer of the immune system that affects roughly 5,000 Spaniards each year, presents an especially enticing target for vaccine researchers because its cells all carry a protein, called an idiotype, that distinguishes them from their healthy counterparts. Mixing the idiotype with other substances that trigger immunological responses, "the vaccine presents a tumor...
...prohibitively high. The University, through UHS, should follow the Massachussetts state government’s lead in fighting cervical cancer and subsidize the vaccination’s costs for women who want it. HPV is a common, sexually-transmitted disease caused by strains of the human papillomavirus group of viruses. The Center for Disease Control estimates that genital strains of HPV will infect over 50 percent of sexually active men and women at some point in their lives. Once someone is infected with the virus, he or she may remain asymptomatic or may develop genital warts. The greatest danger that...