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...exotic name, but the human papillomavirus is actually a very commonplace sexually transmitted disease. More than half of U.S. women will develop sex-related HPV infections at some point in their life, and in most cases the immune system knocks the virus out before it can do any damage. In some cases, however, the infection becomes chronic, with measurable levels of the virus remaining in the system. Perhaps 5% of these women will eventually develop precancerous lesions that could lead to cervical cancer. Or at least that's what would happen if they did not undergo routine Pap smears, which...
...most common side effect of the prototype vaccine has been a little bit of muscle pain at the injection site. The inoculum was designed so that it cannot cause an HPV infection, even accidentally. It contains only proteins from the virus' outer shell and no genetic material that can lead to disease...
...party. For the past five years, the world's most famous living philosopher, author of such Gitanes-and-black-turtleneck classics as Of Grammatology, allowed a camera to follow him around in order to make Derrida, a documentary that demonstrates, if nothing else, that The Osbournes' celebrity reality-show virus has spread all the way up to the top of the culture...
...effective vaccine. "I'll always regret calling these 'edible vaccines,'" he says, "because that's just the image it conjures up." Arntzen hopes to test his tomato juice on animals within the year, with human trials to follow. He's also thinking about vaccines for cholera, hepatitis, human papilloma virus and measles. And he's not alone: some four dozen labs around the world are working on their own versions of what Arntzen would prefer to call "plant-derived" vaccines, based on tomatoes, bananas and potatoes. Within a few years, some of the planet's most pernicious killers could...
Smiling in all-knowing way, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes wags an authoritative finger at me and diagnoses, “You’ve got a little religious bug, a little religious virus...