Vaccines vs. Treatment
-Treatment vs. Prevention
-Treatment is not curative – examples are HTN, anti-diabetic medications, anti-asthma medications
-New options are antibody serum, gene PCR techniques
-Prevention – examples are vaccines, gene transformations
-Vaccine manufacturing process
-Production technologies – using flu vaccine as an example
-Egg-based
-Cell based
-Recombinant
-https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm
-Coronavirus vaccine
-Exploratory stage (2-4yrs)
-Pre-clinical stage – animal tests 1-2 yrs.
-Clinical development – ca. 30% make it
-Regulatory review and approval – sign off by FDA and CDC
-Manufacturing – FDA inspects factory and drug labels
-Quality control – quality control review for safet
-Vaccine manufacture
-Vaccines are an antigen or foreign body that causes a reaction when introduced into the body. Foreign antigens illicit antibodies that fight the antigen.
-Live virus
-Inactivated virus
-Vaccine composed of a part of the virus
-Bacterial vaccines
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