分子ウイルス学が専門のScottに聞くmRNAワクチン

さて、なかなか世界中でコロナ感染が収まらない中、

最近の話題はワクチン接種が始まったことではない

でしょうか？

ワクチンの接種が始まったので、その効果や副反応などの

情報も入ってきて、だいぶわかってきましたね。

でも、その情報の中で聞き慣れない、mRNAワクチンという

言葉に気が付かれた方もいらっしゃると思いますが、

あなたはなんだか知っていますか？

実は、これって今までのワクチンとは違うのです。

そこで、今回Scottにお願いしてmRNAワクチンってなに？

と説明してもらうことにしました。

あまりScottを知らない方にお伝えしますが、彼は専門が

分子ウイルス学で、この1月に論文を発表したところなのです。

では、彼の説明を読んでご参考になさってください。

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mRNA Vaccine Article

Last year the world was faced with an outbreak of a new

infectious disease known as COVID-19, an illness

caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

It quickly spread around the world and caused widespread

panic, death, and large-scale economic damage as countries

were forced to shut down businesses and trade in order to

stop the disease’s proliferation.

Working tirelessly, researchers labored to find some way

to at least slow down the virus and finally we are seeing

the fruits of such labor in the form of multiple vaccines.

However, these new vaccines take on a different form from

what has been used up until now.

In the past, vaccines have primarily been comprised of

a small part of disease or even a whole disease in order to

train the body how to fight it. The two most widely used

types of vaccines are live-attenuated vaccines and

inactivated vaccines; the former uses a weakened version of

the disease and creates the strongest as well as

longest-lasting immune response while the latter uses

a killed or otherwise inactive version of the disease,

producing slightly weaker but still potent results.