Tag: vaccine

Why Vaccines Take So Long

As you might imagine, working with a virus that you plan to inject into humans requires a high degree care and an overabundance of caution. Because of this, quite appropriately, creating the final vaccine product can take many many months. Testing starts on experimental animals to validate that it...

What About Covid Vaccines?

We hear a lot about the vaccine for COVID-19, and researchers race to create it. But how do they work and what kinds of viruses do they use? How Do They Work? If you contract a virus, your body will produce antibodies to that molecule so that if you...

Fraud: Autism-vaccine researcher Nailed

Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the-now disgraced British doctor who published studies linking vaccines with autism, committed an “elaborate fraud” by faking data, the British Medical Journal said on Wednesday. The journal’s editors said it was not possible that Wakefield made a mistake but must have falsified the data for his...