VACCINES
The failure of the pharmaceutical industry to supply the world with an adequate supply of vaccines for all the major infectious diseases is a sad comment on the nature of consumerism. Vaccines last for ever; but antibiotics are a throw away product. It makes more sense for industry to plough money into an enterprise that calls for never ending production and a never ending source of profit.
A large investment in vaccines implies high initial sales; but ever decreasing turnover. It makes sense that the first product on the market in the treatment of AIDS was Retrovir, another form of disposable anti viral antibiotic. Why should drug companies spend money on vaccine research when it is possible to get people to pay 10,000 dollars a year to take a product three times a day that might never be going to work in the first place?
It is altogether possible that the age of antibiotics is an appendix in the course of medical history. A technological dead end that mirrored the ethic of a culture determined to make over the face of the planet into a rubbish bin in the space of a passing century. Edward Jenner developed the Small Pox Vaccine in 1789. The Small Pox virus was not vanquished from the face of the earth until 1969.
Antibiotics can not and never will eradicate one species of micro organism. All they can do is save an individual and produce drug resistant organisms. Resistant organisms call for a new family of antibiotics to be generated once every ten years. There is mounting evidence that the laboratories may not be able keep pace with this rising tide of microbiological resistance. Vaccines are the only long term insurance against a resurgence of bacteriological disease.
Vaccines against the following infections are currently available in the market place: Diphtheria, Measles, German Measles, Cholera (it probably doesn't work), Whooping Cough, Tetanus, Tuberculosis, Hemophilus, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Influenza, Rabies, Mumps, Meningitis, Bubonic Plague, Pneumonia, Polio, Q Fever, Typhoid and Yellow Fever.
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GENERAL HEALTH
- The expiry date is mentioned on each blister. It is different for different batches. The shelf life is 2 years from the date of manufacture and would differ from batch to batch depending on when they were manufactured.
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