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Canberra Times (canberra.yourguide.com.au/home.asp) (07/15/03) P. A6; Cronin, Danielle

Scientists are making headway in the development of vaccines that can treat cancers, drug abuse and dementia. In the Internal Medicine Journal, John Curtin School of Medical Research professor Gordon Ada said the application of vaccine technology as a tool in the control and prevention of non-communicable disease was a recent discovery, and one still in the experimental stage. Among the different types of maladies researchers hope to treat with vaccine technology are different types of cancers, allergies, neurodegenerative diseases and drug addition. Other vaccine formulations in development include treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease and one to control some of the malignancies caused by Epstein-Barr virus infections such as Burkitt’s lymphoma.

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