Imagine a day when you can drink straight from mountain streams without the worry of spending 6 weeks on the toilet following your backpacking trip: A team of Argentine biologists may have the key to developing a vaccine for giardia. Not quite "right around the corner," but it sounds like a huge step in the right direction, the
New York Times reports.
In an experiment that has not yet been published, Dr. Luján has tested gerbils, the laboratory animal often used in giardia work, with a vaccine consisting just of giardia with its RNA interference system blocked. “We saw complete protection,” he said.
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