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  • 2016-09-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Diabetes Vaccine Announced? (en)
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  • On 18 September 2016, the English-language clickbait web site called Time for You shared an article reporting that The vaccine against diabetes promises to be the solution for the advance of the illness and even reverses its effects. The story cited work of two supposed Mexican scientists, Salvador Chacón Ramírez, president of the Live Your Diabetes Foundation, and Lucila Zárate Ortega, of the Mexican Association for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases, along with Doctor Jorge González Ramírez, using a therapy called auto-chemotherapy. According to the Time for You article (which appeared to rely on a bad auto-translation), the procedure for immunizing against diabetes works as follows: The article referred to events in Mexico that transpired in November 2015. According to the Spanish-language daily newspaper, La Jornada, the organization Live Your Diabetes held a press conference announcing their alleged discovery on 25 November 2015, but they were shut down by the Mexican government within 24 hours for hawking a bogus therapy. The English language version of the La Jornada article misrendered the treatment Autohemotherapy as auto-chemotherapy: We couldn't find any evidence that autohemotherapy, the practice of injecting patients with their own blood cells, is currently being used by the legitimate medical community for treatment any medical ailments. A 9 December 2014 article in the peer-reviewed journal Cureus notesdthat while autohemotherapy was used in the past for the skin conditions urticaria and eczema, evidence of its efficacy for that purpose wasn't reliable: Currently there is no known cure for diabetes, an autoimmune disorder that produces high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period. There are two forms of the disease, the first of which (Type 1) typically onsets during childhood and results from the body's immune system attacking insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Insulin is key to glucose metabolism, and the absence of insulin in the blood stream results in a build-up in the body which over time becomes life-threatening. This deficiency is primarily controlled through insulin injections. Type 2 diabetes is often referred to as adult onset and, depending on the severity, can in some cases be controlled with diet and lifestyle changes. It results from cells becoming resistant to the effects of insulin and is often linked to obesity. (en)
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