Vaccine Development vs. Treatment

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Vaccines vs. Treatment

-Treatment vs. Prevention

-Treatment is not curative – examples are HTN, anti-diabetic medications, anti-asthma medications

-New options are antibody serum, gene PCR techniques

-Prevention – examples are vaccines, gene transformations

-Vaccine manufacturing process

-Production technologies – using flu vaccine as an example

-Egg-based

-Cell based

-Recombinant

-https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm

-Coronavirus vaccine

-Exploratory stage (2-4yrs)

-Pre-clinical stage – animal tests 1-2 yrs.

-Clinical development – ca. 30% make it

-Regulatory review and approval – sign off by FDA and CDC

-Manufacturing – FDA inspects factory and drug labels

-Quality control – quality control review for safet

-Vaccine manufacture

-Vaccines are an antigen or foreign body that causes a reaction when introduced into the body. Foreign antigens illicit antibodies that fight the antigen.

-Live virus

-Inactivated virus

-Vaccine composed of a part of the virus

-Bacterial vaccines

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