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Cuba Develops Four Cancer Vaccines, Ignored by the Media
By Tony Seed
Global Research, July 07, 2014
The fact that Cuba has already developed four cancer vaccines undoubtedly is big news for humanity if you bear in mind that according to the World Health Organization nearly 8 million people die from that disease every year. However, the monopoly media have completely ignored this reality.
In 2012, Cuba patented the first therapeutic vaccine in the world against advanced lung cancer, called CIMAVAX-EGF. In January 2013, the island announced the second cancer vaccine, known as Racotumomab.
Clinical tests, carried out in 86 nations, revealed that though these vaccines do not cure the disease, they do reduce the tumors thus improving the quality and expectancy of life of the patients.
Vaccines developed by Cubas Molecular Immunology Centre
The Havana-based Molecular Immunology Center is the creator of these vaccines. The center had already developed the Meningitis-B Vaccine in 1985, one of its kind in the world. Later there came other vaccines, such as the Hepatitis-B and the Dengue. Experts at the entity have been researching for years on a HIV-Aids vaccine as well.
The Cuban agenda against cancer is also joined by Labiofam pharmaceutical enterprise, which develops homeopathic medications against the disease, such as VIDATOX, made from the venom of blue scorpion, native of Cuba.
At present, Cuba exports these products to 26 countries and participates in joint ventures in China, Canada and Spain. This breaks the extended media silence about the advancements of Cuba and other South countries in the field, and the largely voiced stereotype that advanced pharmaceutics is only developed in the developed countries.
More:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-develops-four-cancer-vaccines-ignored-by-the-media/5390303
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)Especially if the patents aren't held by the usual Big Pharma suspects...
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)There was barely a peep in the American media.
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/5/08-030508/en/
Cuba's health care system is very impressive for how poor of a country they are.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)This is great news.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)At no time did his feet leave his ankles. It's funny! Thanks.
eridani
(51,907 posts)DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)and try to get them thrown in jail if they set foot on American soil. Just like they do with every other real cancer cure. Because if they admit there are cures out there then they'll have to stop taking the literally trillions of dollars of donations people have working so hard to give them. I feel so bad any time I see a "Walkathon to Cure Cancer" event, especially when people ask me to donate? I want to tell them they're being suckered, and sometimes I actually do. But it hurts me because they're so sincere.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)While they've been devoting their medical research to providing medicine people of the third world can use, so poor people have a chance of getting help, people in this country have been striking it rich capitalizing on the profitable ways you can find treating cancer, and keeping it going.
US Americans don't want to kill the cash cow. Cancer is BIG BIDNESS here.
Paolo123
(297 posts)The reason why nobody is talking about Cuba's vaccines is that due to the ridiculous blockade the pharma companies can't enter into agreements to license them as they normally do when some government or university invents something.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)a kennedy
(29,467 posts)We have got to be able to travel to Cuba. NOW. or at least when the Castro brothers are gone.....
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)They did a lot more for their countrymen than anyone else ever did. They're certainly better than the American-supported Bautista!
Before ACA, if I'd come down with some terrible disease, I'd have had to try to tunnel or swim or float to Cuba for treatment.
roody
(10,849 posts)Millions of Americans do.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Zorro
(15,691 posts)IronGate
(2,186 posts)Al Carroll
(113 posts)...stay classy. If your blinding ideological hatred will let you.
No matter how much I disagree with someone, I don't celebrate or joke about their death.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)grave dancing goes on here all the time, so save your faux outrage for someone who cares.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)and will be "translated" directly to Troll Heaven:
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Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)How wonderful for the world, getting to have you around perpetually.
IronGate
(2,186 posts)Thanks.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)blue mane
(3 posts)My mom's aunt has cancer, she just lost her eye sight.... & lost all her weight wtf is wrong with the media???
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)Cuba Ailing? Not Its Biomedical Industry
Tom Fawthrop
The Straits Times, 26 January 2004
MENTION faraway Cuba and most people think of a Caribbean island best known for Havana cigars, rum and the revolutionary exploits of Che Guevara. They probably don't associate it with cutting edge medical research. Yet Cuban biotechnology is now, among other things, leading the way in the development of a new generation of anti-cancer therapies expected to be available to the European market by 2008.
Given Cuba's cash-strapped economy, its scientific achievements are all the more surprising. It has long been battered by the United States trade embargo, imposed in the 1960s and still in force today. After the Cold War ended, Washington tightened the economic screws further with resulting shortages of consumer goods.
When Marxist revolutionary Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, most of Cuba's resources were ploughed into developing education and health systems. In the mid-1980s, with aid from the Soviet Union, Cuba started to invest heavily in science and biotechnology.
Although it is a small country with only 11 million people, it now boasts 52 scientific research institutes in the capital and more than 12,000 scientists on the whole island.
Cuba's health indicators - the infant mortality rate is 6.4 per 1,000 and life expectancy is 75 years - put it in the same league, health-wise, as the US and Britain. The quality and efficiency of its comprehensive, and free, health-care system contrasts sharply with the sluggish and inefficient state-controlled economy.
Cuba pulled off its first scientific coup with the discovery of a new vaccine for meningitis B in the late 1980s. The vaccine controlled epidemics at home, and obtained good results abroad especially in Argentina and Brazil.
Havana's Carlos J. Finlay Institute has entered into a deal that allows major drug multinational GlaxoSmithKline to license its discovery in order to facilitate the first entry of a Cuban medical product into the more lucrative Western market.
Professor Michael Levin, head of the Paediatric Unit at St Mary's Hospital in London, and who is pioneering a joint UK-Cuban medical research project at the Finlay Institute, told this correspondent that despite its economic problems, 'they have excellent laboratories, and their doctors and scientists have maintained world-class standards'.
More:
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/cuba-ailing-not-its-biomedical-industry
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)IronGate
(2,186 posts)And this is a thread about Cuba discovering 4 cancer vaccines, so it is relevant.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)IronGate
(2,186 posts)I answered why it was relevant, no further comment was necessary.
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)One of the many, many reasons to end the Embargo and celebrate the talents of those 90 miles South of us.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)prevent the disease in the first place.
So these are not vaccines, although they seem to be treatments for specific cancers.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)A cancer vaccine is a vaccine that treats existing cancer or prevents the development of cancer in certain high-risk individuals. Vaccines that treat existing cancer are known as therapeutic cancer vaccines. There are currently no vaccines able to prevent cancer in general.
Some types of cancer, such as cervical cancer and some liver cancers, are caused by viruses (known as oncoviruses), and traditional vaccines against those viruses, such as HPV vaccine and hepatitis B vaccine, will prevent those types of cancer. These anti-viral vaccines are not further discussed in the rest of this article. Other cancers are to some extent caused by bacterial infections (e.g. stomach cancer and Helicobacter pylori[1]) and traditional vaccines against cancer-causing bacteria are also not discussed in this article.
Scientists have also been trying to develop vaccines against existing cancers. Some researchers believe that cancer cells routinely arise and are destroyed by the healthy immune system;[2] cancer forms when the immune system fails to destroy them.[3]
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_vaccine
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)but I still find it a misleading use of the word vaccine. Guess that's just me.