Yay Science!

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Queensland University of Technology press release says a vaccine against one of the world's most common sexually-transmitted infections, chlamydia, may be available in three to five years. If they can achieve that, it'll save a lot of fertility treatments and more than a handful of lives; if it can be made cheap enough for worldwide use, it will also eliminate the most common cause of preventable blindness.

Obviously the usual suspects will complain bitterly about anything that might make sex safer, but stuff 'em, I'm pleased. We may not have defeated HIV yet, but substantial strides have been made just in my lifetime on HPV, Hep B, and now this.

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Mind you, a lot of these (AIDS excepted) have been around for a very long time and we've only just learned to recognise the damage they do; a hundred years ago nobody knew HPV-11 existed, but it was killing people and causing infertility all the same.