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Old 03-22-2013, 03:38 PM
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Thanks for this information! I have also read about the MG vaccine that Dr. J. Edwin Blalock developed at UAB. This part of the study was funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation and the vaccine did work on rats and dogs. However, when it was time for human trials in 2009 he ran into problems getting funding because MG isn't that common and pharmaceutical companies didn't feel they could make make enough money off an actual cure.

Dr. Stephane Huberty from Belgium partnered with him, but had funding and waiting problems too. Disgusted with waiting Dr. Huberty who is also a MG patient injected himself with great results. Curavac is the company the doc is using to continue work on this vaccine and trying to collect enough money to continue with human trials.

Hopefully, this study doesn't end because of lack of funding. It is a shame that greed seems to play such an important part in the history of pharmaceutical companies and rare diseases don't appear to matter.

Praying there is a cure or treatment with few side effects available to all of you soon!!!

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