May 8, 2014
Lawrence Solomon
Today's vaccines are failing. Personalized vaccines that reflect an individual's genetic profile are coming
Vaccines as we know them are on the way out. On the way in are personalized, precision vaccines, created through a new discipline called vaccinomics that promises to protect a higher proportion of the population at far lower cost and without the real and potential harms that mass vaccination programs inflict on some people.
"The old paradigm isn't working anymore," Dr. Gregory Poland, head of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group explains matter-of-factly. "It didn't work with HIV, it doesn't work with other complex viruses and pathogens." It didn't even work with measles, which countries in the west had declared eliminated. Now measles is coming back and it isn't likely to stop, not until old-school vaccine scientists give up their "cherished dogma," recognize the many limitations in today's vaccines and adopt 21st century thinking...
