Once upon a
time vaccination made significant impact on the health of the mankind. A lot of
diseases were eradicated and life expectancy was improved from 40 to 75-80
years. It is obvious that such an impact must be considered as a revolution. Well,
vaccination worked excellent to treat prevent infections but just think
if it is also applicable for prevention of other types of diseases, like
cancer, AD, etc? If we identify pathogens for these diseases so we can target
our immune system to kill the pathogen and prevent us to be sick! So simple!
And it worked fine earlier! Why not to try once again?
Well, it
looks like it is too simple to be true. However there is always some
probability that this approach will generate some positive outcome just due to
former success of the vaccination. And work is in progress: nearly
300 vaccines in R&D in US.
The vaccines, all of which are currently in
clinical trials or under review at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
include 170 for infectious diseases, 102 for cancers and eight for neurological
disorders, says the report, from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
of America (PhRMA).
I do not expect any Black
Swan associated with new vaccination products in the nearest 10-20 years,
however in 30-50 years I am not so sure with my expectations. Hopefully
vaccination will manage to improve our life expectancy with additional 40 years
as it has done once upon a time…
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