Talk:Vaccine
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I think some of the bulleted lists in the article require citations in certain places. For example, under "Types - Experimental" there is no source verifying the statements made about DNA vaccines, particularly that experimental work has been done as of 2015 but not for human use. Similarly under "Effectiveness" there exists a list of factors affecting vaccine efficacy with citations for only two of the five claims being made.
There are also recent developments underway commercially for new forms of vaccines that are unmentioned here. One of which that comes to mind is the work being done on encapsulated vaccines or encapsulated surface antigens for the body to detect similar to traditional vaccines[1][2].
Adel Attari (talk) 20:27, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
"Effectiveness" needs an extra line or two.
Some discussion should be had in this paragraph about how both bacteria and viruses mutate; and one of the mutations can be (and very very very orften is) that mutations proceed to the point where the (now mutated) infectious organism is sifficiently different to the agent in the vaccine that the antibodies, developed in response to the vaccine, will no longer work against the organism. A discussion of how quickly or slowly this happens and why (eg, influenza versus say tetanus) coudl also be appropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.161.147.226 (talk) 09:32, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Proposed merge with Vaccination
Articles cover the same subject matter, the article "vaccination" is basically a stripped down version of this article. I think any content in "vaccination" that is not also in this article should be added to this article and "vaccination" should redirect here, it seems confusing that there is at article "vaccination" and a separate article "vaccine" but I wanted to get consensus before merging such large important articles. Tornado chaser (talk) 19:20, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
P.S why are the links another user added stuck to the bottom of the page as if they were added by whoever was the last person to comment here? Tornado chaser (talk) 19:22, 30 July 2017 (UTC)