Cuba Presents Anti-Cholera Vaccine

[Karmadillo]

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BEEE48B96-43F9-4DEB-91DF-205A9A3C7382%7D&language=EN

Havana, May 28 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban vaccine created by the Finlay Institute is ready to be tested in countries where the disease is spread, asserted marketing Vice President Francisco Dominguez, on Friday.

Francisco Dominguez said a research proved the antigen was safe and possessed a high efficiency and immunogenecity (capacity to generate immune response).

There were no unexpected effects in the test on 100 healthy people, chiefly researchers from the institute. The effects we expected quickly disappeared, Dominguez explained.

He said the research should go into the phase I-II to verify if immunization behaves similarly in places severely affected by cholera (diarrhea, dehydration and death).

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. damn them backwards commies

they are not allowed to develop useful medical treatments that benefit humanity. Damn them. We must invade them now!

[Straight Shooter]

2. This is so NOT what the U.S. government wants.

Healthy people live longer and drain resources that rightfully belong to the U.S., no matter where those resources might be. Healthy people are also more capable of defending those resources.

Damn those Cuban commies. Damn them, damn them.

:sarcasm:

[IndianaGreen]

5. This is why John Bolton smeared Cuba with the bio-weapons charge

At the same time Bolton was harassing intelligence analysts for their failure to tailor their analysis to Bolton's ideological world view, Bolton was accusing Cuba of having a vast bio-weapons program. The reality was that Cuba was providing free vaccines and medical assistance to Third World countries, hurting the profits of American pharmaceutical companies.

How many times did Bolton and his other cutthroats in Condi's State Department and the Pentagon raised the alarm about Cubans in Venezuela? Cuban doctors working for free bringing health care and medicines to the poor in Venezuela are a bigger threat to the US than WMD. Cuba remains a dagger pointed at the heart of the Big Colossus of the North!

[DELUSIONAL]

3. Cuba has far greater respect throughout the region

and probably the world than does the weapons exporting US.

[patdem]

4. But...but..but...look at what america is doing...

NYT: U.S. Set to Test Missile Defenses Aboard Airlines

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3745978

Weapons...health...weapons..health...like the poster said...DAMN thode commies! how dare they save lives when we are about murder! :grr: :sarcasm:

[guajira]

6. Just one More Reason

why Americans are not allowed to visit Cuba and find out what is really going on there!

We are supposed to believe the hateful propaganda that Miami gusanos spew out day and night on Miami Spanish radio.

However, some of us have actually been to Cuba and know that the island is a beautiful, peaceful and friendly country.

But most Americans will never know that first-hand, being very willing to give up our freedoms if our government tells them to.

Write your congressperson and tell them you want to travel to Cuba!!

[Mika]

7. Right on the mark, guijira!!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

People should wonder just what it is that the US gov doesn't want Americans to see about Cuba for themselves.









www.stopbolton.org

[IndianaGreen]

9. And the Miami gusanos want Bush to do to Cuba what he did to Iraq

No matter how much one might hate Fidel, wishing the Cuban people the same horrible fate that the Iraqis are suffering under US occupation is the most inhuman thing that one can desire. How can any decent human being wish to see Cuba's cities reduced to rubble by American bombing, and her citizens being murdered, starved, and tortured as we have done to the civilian population in Iraq?

[malaise]

8. Great news for people

in developing countries.

[Dirk39]

10. The USA's Pro-Cholera Vaccine:

Hello from Germany,

I did just read this today and reading this topic, I couldn't resist to post it:

"The previously wiped-out diseases typhoid and cholera made a stunning comeback among Iraqi children, because water was contaminated and hospitals were deprived of medicine by sanctions. By 1996, UN agencies reported that over half a million Iraqis had died.

The 2001 declassification of 1991 Defense Intelligence Agency documents showed that the Pentagon’s conscious goal was to cause widespread illness throughout the Iraqi population, through water-borne disease. “Conditions are favorable for communicable disease outbreaks, particularly in major urban areas affected by coalition bombing,” is a chillingly typical quote.

This genocidal campaign, waged to get control of Iraq’s oil resources, is the true crime behind the oil-for-food “scandal” now making headlines."

http://www.workers.org/2005/us/galloway-0602/

Dirk

[Mika]

12. Thanks Dirk. Points out who the REAL criminals are - BushCrimeNazis Inc.

Genocide R US

[Judi Lynn]

11. Cuba develops new cholera vaccine

Cuba develops new cholera vaccine
Saturday, May 28, 2005
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban scientists have developed a new cholera vaccine and are ready to do "field testing" in Africa before it is marketed worldwide, officials said.
(snip)

The next step will be to test whether immunization with the new vaccine maintains its efficacy in countries that have high incidences of cholera, and where people have secondary conditions from malnutrition to malaria or AIDS, Dominguez told reporters.
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Cuba has held talks with Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa on possible testing there.

Cholera, which had been all but wiped out in Latin America, staged a deadly comeback in the 1990s, claiming thousands of lives.

The Instituto Finlay has been behind a number of new vaccine developments.

It developed the only effective vaccine against type B meningitis which Cuba markets in several countries around the world.
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http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/05/30/vaccine.shtml