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    JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereStassa Edwards
    6/20/16 12:38pm

    If it works, what will we get overly-panicky about next?

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      rslwnJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      6/20/16 12:43pm

      Man, you’re out of line here. As a pregnant woman who may have been(or could be) exposed, tell me to my (Internet) face that I’m being overly panicky about the possibility of birth defects incompatible with life in my long-awaited baby. Go ahead, say it.

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      JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hererslwn
      6/20/16 12:50pm

      are you saying that you have been exposed? Or is this hypothetical?

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    courtStassa Edwards
    6/20/16 12:27pm

    So, as long as there are no more than 58 possible lethal side effects and Pfizer can mark the price up 500 percent, it will be approved in 9 years?

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      rslwncourt
      6/20/16 12:31pm

      Yessssssss let’s absolutely make this about the vaccine “industry” and shady pharmaceutical companies rather than saving lives and preventing birth defects.

      ETA: Goddamnit people this is going to be a fucking PUBLIC. HEALTH. CRISIS. in the U.S. within the next five years, maybe even the next year. Yes, capitalism especially as it affects health care is Bad. We know. But a vaccine against Zika is important and maybe we can support that while continuing to acknowledge that capitalism is Bad.

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      courtrslwn
      6/20/16 12:39pm

      We should do that! Let’s put everyone on trial, especially the homeopathic frauds and natural healers too. It was a broad, generalized criticism that missed its mark and certainly could have been more narrowly and successfully communicated. But I stand by my shitty post, lackluster as it was.

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    Inside jokeStassa Edwards
    6/20/16 1:01pm

    Wow. Commenters in rare form here. This is a life saving development that we shouldn’t be excited about because BIG PHARMA might make a buck and at any rate, zika’s all hype, and hey, let’s be sure to ration it so that the kids of unscientificly minded people can be reap their appropriate karmic rewards.

    HOT TAEK incoming: this is great news, and if someone makes a buck preventing tens of thousands of birth defects, they fucking deserve it.

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      brighterStassa Edwards
      6/20/16 12:25pm

      what the fuck? we can’t dismiss comments? what happened? some dude is in the shooting post telling me that I should have shot my rapist and I can’t dismiss it?

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        Chalupa Batwomanbrighter
        6/20/16 12:52pm

        Yeah I was happily dismissing posts until about an hour ago...Kinja!

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        darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeenebrighter
        6/20/16 1:48pm

        I noticed that too! I saw a lot of posts I needed to dismiss over the weekend (but for some reason i cant delete on my phone) and when I was finally able to go in and dismiss, there was no button. I worry about where this could lead.

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      R. damascenaStassa Edwards
      6/20/16 1:09pm

      Vaccine, yay!

      I bet it’s a nice-paying study to guinea-pig for, too. I remember seeing an Ebola thing on Craiglist (or maybe the paper?) and that was paying bank compared to more regular things.

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        aranelStassa Edwards
        6/20/16 1:21pm

        I know that participants in a study like this are compensated, but still: What a brave thing to do!

        There is currently no way to get life-saving vaccines without doing some human testing at some point. That means real people must risk unknown, possibly life-threatening side effects. In my book, those people are heroes, no matter how well paid they are.

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          Shokesnowhasaprofilepicturearanel
          6/20/16 11:36pm

          I was wondering if they recruit people already infected or if they inject it into test subjects.

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          aranelShokesnowhasaprofilepicture
          6/21/16 1:40pm

          The first round is just to see if it is safe for humans and get some sort of baseline for how antibodies are produced in response to the new vaccine. You generally want healthy people for that. Healthy people are better able to cope with potential side effects.

          Vaccines don’t necessarily do much for people who are already infected, anyway. If it was a cure for Zika that they were testing, it would be different.

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        needlesmcfasterbikeStassa Edwards
        6/20/16 12:35pm

        People who don’t get vaccinated for other crap and/or don’t vaccinate their kids can get to the back of the line for this one. Can’t pick and choose what vaccines you “believe in”.

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          SaharaWMWStassa Edwards
          6/20/16 7:29pm

          I ❤ science.

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