Phase I clinical trial of Moderna mRNA vaccine for Epstein-Barr virus starting

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33 points·drewcon··6 comments

It wasn't mentioned in the press release, but I find this trial extremely interesting in light of recent results that Epstein-Barr virus maybe the leading cause of multiple-sclerosis:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/epstein-bar...

Many common virus's may cause a lot more havoc than we currently know. So if mRNA based vaccines allow us to eliminate a bunch of them it could do a world of good

Somewhere I read it might be linked to bipolar disorder also.

I keep getting reminded that various meds used to treat mental illness are antihistamines. I heard from an allergist that they literally cannot evaluate someone for common allergies if they are on the most popular antipsychotic, because it suppresses the skin reaction.

Yet it's as if this was in a parallel universe that doesn't affect ours, where "mental illness" is, well, mental.

That may be related to Benadryl link to dementia?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/common-anticholinergic-d...

I wonder how many annual vaccines we'll be taking in the future.

I hope it’s a lot! Vaccines are literal superpowers. You give your body a tiny injection from a vial, and BAM suddenly you’re invulnerable* to attack!*

* partially

* from one specific family of microorganism

Exactly! I was born with several heart defects and wouldn't be alive at all if I was born earlier.

I love washing machines, cars, bikes, easily accessible food, GPS, vaccines, medical science, computers.

Technology enables and improves our lives in ways nothing else can match! People have this idea that any improvement we find will have some sort of monkeys paw downside, but it's not true, who knows what genetic programming will one day unlock!

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