Guest guest Posted December 11, 2006 Report Share Posted December 11, 2006 Tetanus and rabies vaccines are prepared from animal (not human) serum..or blood/plasma. When we encounter a foreign protein like that..it is usually something we eat, and it has to pass through our "censor" centers. Our mouths and our digestive systems. This way it is unlikely that the invader is going to get into our blood stream intact, and able to do damage. When you inject it directly into the blood, our ability to censor it is lost. The part of our immune system that is responsible for recognizing self from non self must then do the work. Can that part function properly if we start injecting "non self " at birth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2006 Report Share Posted December 11, 2006 Back when I was in college, one of the professors had a tale to tell about the rabies vaccine. Back when he was in veterinary college, he was doing research involving giving rabies to guinea pigs. He was working in the lab alone on Sunday. He held the guinea pig to his belly to inject it. The guinea pig wiggled and he shot himself up with live rabies virus in his belly. Back then, the rabies vaccine was grown on dog spinal chords. There was a 50:50 chance that someone getting a series of rabies shots would become allergic to his own spinal tissue and become totally paralysed for life. On the other hand, if one came down with rabies, it was almost always fatal. Being a vet student, he knew the risks and dangers. He opted to slip open his abdomen and wash his intestines in the lab sink to remove as much of the virus as possible. Needless to say he lived thru the ordeal, and did not contract rabies. After getting the incision properly sutured up in the emergency room, he applied Iodine to the scar many times a day. He showed the class his scar. It was much less prominent than my apendectomy scar. So veterinarians were once taught about using Iodine to help scars to heal better. Alobar On 12/11/06, Aprilcupcake@... <Aprilcupcake@...> wrote: Tetanus and rabies vaccines are prepared from animal (not human) serum..or blood/plasma. When we encounter a foreign protein like that..it is usually something we eat, and it has to pass through our " censor " centers. Our mouths and our digestive systems. This way it is unlikely that the invader is going to get into our blood stream intact, and able to do damage. When you inject it directly into the blood, our ability to censor it is lost. The part of our immune system that is responsible for recognizing self from non self must then do the work. Can that part function properly if we start injecting " non self " at birth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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