Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton Montana developed the vaccine for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever .?
Question:
Answers:
In the 1950's in the heyday of success for preventing polio with vaccines, there was a pretty lax regulatory environment for vaccines. In those days, you could grow rickettsia in chicken embryos, kill them, grind and inject. Those days are gone. Higher safety standards for vaccines means ther ei scurrently NO available vaccine for rocky mountain spotted fever.
Instead, teh biotech/capital venture approach is being taken and vaccines are being developed using recombinant technology, expressing a surface rptein of the rickettsia in a baculovirus and purifying the protein for injection. No one knows whether this will work.
More Questions and Answers
- What exactly does a 5 year survival rate of 70-80% mean?
- SMOKERS: are you concerned about your children/grandchildren being exposed to second hand smoke?
- Did anyone know anything about schizophrenia?
- Asthma: worth a trip to the doctor?
- what is the name of that disease, where direct sunlight can seriously hurt the victim. its not mythical?
- is the global warming effect interfearing with life on planet earth?
- What type of cold and flu tablets should I take? What is the quickest healing?
- What does a high white blood cell count usually signify?mine is 17.6?and my sed rate is 46?