Scots Invent Vaccine . . . But Could Lose It? Interview of the Week Interview of the Week Thomas Lingelbach, Managing Director of Intercell by Steven Vass
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THE Scots might be renowned for worldclass discoveries like penicillin, electromagnetism and the ultrasound, but one recent scientic breakthrough seems in danger of being overlooked.
Thanks to the approximately 80 workers at the Intercell factory in Livingston, the world now has the rst side-effect-free vaccine for Japanese encephalitis ( JE). Thomas Lingelbach, managing director of the factory and chief operating officer of the Viennabased group, would be the first to admit that the discovery is not quite in the same league as vaccination Holy Grails like asthma or malaria, but it is certainly good news for the world's 30,000 to 50,000 annual sufferers.See the full content of this document
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Scots Invent Vaccine . . . But Could Lose It? Interview of the Week Interview of the Week Thomas Lingelbach, Managing Director of Intercell by Steven Vass
As Lingelbach explains, the virus is carried by large numbers of the Asian population without attacking them, for reasons that are not well understood. This makes vaccination particularly important for higher-risk groups like indigenous children and foreign travellers, who don't have the necessary antibodies. Howeve...
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