Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, of the Oxford Vaccine Group, says its trial results are about to be submitted for peer review Credit: Andrew Crowley for The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH | Published January 5, 2025
Oxford team reports hopeful results in trials as military experts say UK should stock supplies of Black Death inoculation
Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge.
There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague, which has killed around 200 million people worldwide throughout history.
But the team behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus jab has now reported progress in its work on an inoculation.
Three of the world’s seven known pandemics have been caused by the plague, a bacterial infection triggered by the Yersinia pestis microbe. It can be treated with antibiotics but none of the several vaccines in development are approved for use.
Scientists have called for the UK to add a Black Death jab to its stockpile as the risk of a superbug strain rises.
And now the Oxford team says a trial of its vaccine on 40 healthy adults which started in 2021 has yielded results which show it is safe and able to produce an immune response in people.
The man behind the trial, Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, told The Telegraph that the results of the trial are to be submitted to a journal for peer review within weeks, with further clinical trials expected.
He said: “There are no licensed plague vaccines in the UK. Antibiotics are the only treatment. There are some licensed vaccines in Russia.
“The risk in the UK is currently very low. Previous historical pandemics that had high mortality were associated with initiation from fleas on rodents but were driven by person to person spread.”
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SOURCE: www.telegraph.co.uk
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THE GATEWAY PUNDIT | Published January 5, 2025
In a world still grappling with the fallout from hastily developed COVID-19 vaccines, the same scientific elite is now setting its sights on a new potential crisis: the bubonic plague.
Yes, the same Oxford scientists behind the controversial AstraZeneca COVID jab are now advancing efforts to create a vaccine for a disease that last caused mass devastation during the Middle Ages.
The Bubonic Plague, often referred to as the Black Death, is a serious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is one of the three forms of plague (bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic) and is the most common. The disease primarily affects humans and other mammals and is transmitted through the bite of an infected flea or through direct contact with infected animals.
This historic disease, which wiped out half of Europe’s population in the 1300s, has long been confined to the pages of history books.
Yet, claims of “superbug” strains emerging in distant corners of the world have reignited calls for mass inoculation efforts.
Predictably, climate change and the specter of bioterrorism are once again being trotted out as the justification for this latest round of vaccine development.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
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