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The worldwide eradication of smallpox may, inadvertently, have helped spread HIV infection, scientists believe.
Experts say the vaccine used to wipe out smallpox offered some protection against the Aids virus and, now it is no longer used, HIV has flourished.
The US investigators said trials indicated the smallpox jab interferes with how well HIV multiplies.
But they say in the journal BMC Immunology it is too early to recommend smallpox vaccine for fighting HIV.


The whole article can be found here for anyone interested in reading it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8686750.stm


This is fascinating stuff....... and if it works out so... then vaccinating against smallpox might just reduce the spread of HIV!!

Love

Daff xxxxxx

Intresting how preventing one disease can potentially cause another to flourish.

I did read that tere was a possibility of producing a chicken pox vaccine.

When my two were young we used to take them round to the homes of children who had it so to get it out of the way before they started school.
My Daughter was two and a half and my son got it at 6 months the very same week that I went back to work after maternity leave!

My friends baby son was 6weeks old when he caughed it from his school age siblings.Poor little thing every time he was picked up he nuzzled into his mum and dad trying to itch himself.

Teresa

yikes i love that bout of ingenious that you do lol
it makes you wonder about all the vaccines now as to what they may have triggered or inadvertently killed xxx how are you lovely xx

Aw bless him.... I had it at 15... it was dreadful!! In spite of the fact that I have 7 younger siblings, and had been thrown into bed with them when they had it, lol..... nasty!

Love

Daff xxxx

Hiya Puss.... I am great.... get good days and not so good, but the good are brilliant, lol

Still tend to go at things full tilt, and then run out of steam quarter way through, but hey ho... we are getting there!

Has Specky heard when his surgery is?

Love

Daff xxxx

Hi Puss where have you been all day? did I miss you?

Teresa

Hope she hasn't been in the bath... she'll look like a prune!! ;¬))

Love

Daff xxxx

hello girls ive been singing to my parsnip seedlings xx

good to heAR DAFF XXX woops

I wouldn't dare sing to mine.... they'd shrivel at the onslaught, lolol!

Love

Daff xxxx

My Daughter has been singing to the songs from Glee(awful American Fame type show) while making a cake.

She has a good voice but the songs are enough to make Q gardens shrivel lol

Teresa xx

I've never had chickenpox, thought I'd get it when I nursed by daughter with it, when she was about 7, she was covered in spots all over her body.
Best Wishes,

ShelleyRose x