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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Dec 20, 2020 | Replies (50)
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It would have been tremendous for my wife to have the possibility of being vaccinated against MAI, when she was diagnosed with bronchiectasis several years ago.
We can’t afford to have to wait for a polyvalent vaccine or a vaccine for each of the pathogens that can affect people with bronchiectasis.
Can you imagine what would have happened if we had done that with regards to diphteria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, chickenpox, polio, etc.?
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The only problem with your comparison is that all of the diseases you mention, except tetanus, are infectious person-to-person, which MAI and the related infections are not. Tetanus was included in vaccine research because it was 99% fatal if you got it. Again, MAI is not.
@windwalker Terri - unfortunately, even when you add together the number of people with bronchiectasis and Cystic Fibrosis, we was talking about less than 1/2 of 1% of the population, so the combination - low occurence, not fatal, and not contagious, keep this research from rising to the top of the priority list.
Sad, but unfortunately true.
Sue