Crohn's Map Vaccine Website

Any opinions?

crohnsmapvaccine.com/pdfs/CrohnsMAPVaccine_MediaRelease_June2015_share.pdf

LOL," fundraising" hahaha....

xy123, should be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years when they figure they'll have this vaccine available to Crohn's patients....wonder if it will have any affect for UCers.

Might as well put this on this thread as well. The latest study published in relation to MAP detection and Crohn's with a 90% detection rate of MAP DNA in specific areas (ileum and colon) of CD patients and no detection in the same locations of controls:

Application of multiple laboratory tests for Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis detection in Crohn’s disease patient specimens: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26147146

Are they are consequence or cause of the disease? And why these specific locations in almost all Crohn's Patients? ... hopefully we will find out soon.

xy123, I know, and I find it so weird because of the major similarities between CD and UC, it's like they're identical for the most part, especially the inflammation both have and most of the symptoms, so close to one another you'd think it would be the same cause...IBD just gets weirder and weirder.

Ultimately, if it is found that MAP is able to cause disease, or even just aggravate disease in Crohn's patients, governments would be forced to deal with it on a farm and food production level. And this, over time would reduce our individual environmental exposure to it. If all of a sudden Ulcerative Colitis patients see improvement either by the vaccine or reduced exposure then all of a sudden there is something to really focus in on for once...

So no matter what, personally, I just see potentially great benefit to UC people from anything that may come about from the vaccine and other research into it. Perhaps even a fresh look at these diseases.


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Crohn's and UC patients seemingly share some genetic susceptibility overlaps.

Page 8 on this has a nice, simple diagram of the genetic overlaps between the two diseases www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4188925/figure/F1/

or the full paper here:
The history of genetics in inflammatory bowel disease www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4188925/

Post Edited (Canada Mark) : 8/10/2015 4:26:40 PM (GMT-6)