Being healthy is good . That is what we should all aim to be : Not dead , but with all of our flesh on our bodies intact . alas for us human , get our human body eaten is one of the possible side effects of being alive .
Anyway , scientists at Georgia Tech interested in serve us attain the general aspirational goal of not being exhaust have an estimation : A vaccinum against the flesh - eat parasite , Leishmania . While they ’ve only tested the model in mice , they ’re bright that they ’ve actually find something promising in the fight against this dire affliction .
“ We showed here that [ lab mice ] are susceptible to immunisation against causative organism of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis,”the authorswrite in the written report published in the journal ACS Central Science .
You might not worry about Leishmaniasis , but scientist estimate there are upwards ofa millioncases of the parasite a yr in warm environments . transmit and spread by rainfly , the sponge can causeskin soresin some forms and organ swelling ( and last ) in the physical body that sham organ . scientist hoping to defend the disease took a close look at some samples of the parasite to see if it might have particle on its Earth’s surface they could train the human body to recognize .
The researchers dug up a previous paper that showed patient cured of the tegument - mysterious shape of Leishmaniasis had increase level of antibodies ( protein that tag and help neutralise invaders ) specifically place a carbohydrate nicknamed alpha gallon . Looking nearer , they realized that the open of these Leishmaniasis parasites contained alpha gal , so they made an anti - alpha gal vaccine with a custom virus - like particle .
Testing the vaccine in the mice command creating two kind of mouse , thirteen wild - type and the other thirteen genetically modified to await more like a human boniface that would make anti - alpha gal antibodies , according to the report . And it seemed to work . The genetically modified mice made more anti - alpha gal antibodies than the wild eccentric , and seemed to be more tolerant to a Leishmaniasis infection .
You ’re probably cerebrate , this is nothing like a vaccinum clinical tribulation and does n’t prove that a vaccine is around the nook . You ’re right , a mouse is not a human and there ’s plainly lots more study to be done before a vaccine for the disease shows up . I have reach out to a few external experts for further comment .
Anyway , long experience you and your non - eaten body . I go for we do n’t have to deal with a Leishmaniasis outbreak in the United States , and if we do , I trust the vaccine is quick .
[ ACS Central Science ]
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