A new form of powdered measles vaccine has been developed and just successfully passed the initial trials of a long session of testing planned out in the near future. On paper, in the incipient phases of development, the powder-based vaccine already showed a lot of improvement from the classic version. With syringes and needles no longer being needed, the cost of delivering the dry vaccine to … [Read more...]
Modified Measles Vaccine in Minnesota Used To Kill Woman’s Cancer
Stacy Erholtz, a woman with an incurable cancer is now in remission, all credits to a highly concentrated dose of the measles virus enough that it could have served 10 million people. Erholtz, 49, from Pequot Lakes, Minn., battled multiple myeloma, a deadly blood cancer that affects bone marrow, for 10 years. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic say she had received every type of chemotherapy drug … [Read more...]