Re: Vaccine Trial Stopped
Since posting the news above some details have started to leak out about why the trial was halted at least temporarily
The health news website STAT reports that it was a serious adverse reaction of some sort, but that the patient is expected to recover.
Meanwhile, the New York Times quotes a source saying the patient had transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord linked to abnormal immune responses.
That's plausible, according to Professor Terry Nolan from the University of Melbourne.
"Transverse myelitis is a disease of unknown cause, thought to be possibly auto-immune in nature," he says.
That places it on a likely watchlist of diseases to monitor when trialling any new vaccine.
Let's hope this turns out to be a minor set back because this is not what we want to hear.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/...lysis/12644626