Vaccine for Alzheimer’s?

It's incredible.

As we had written in a previous entry,

"one in eight people 65 and older have the mind-destroying illness, and
nearly one in two people over 85" --- currently an estimate of more than 5M
people in the US living with Alzheimer's. Unfortunately, these numbers are
expected to rise -- by 2030, 7.7M are expected to have Alzheimer's and by 2050,
16M.Imagine if this could be prevented.

According to Reuters, there has been an oral vaccine for Alzheimer's developed that has been proven effective in mice in Japan. According to the Japanese scientists who are preparing to conduct small-scale clinical trials in humans, the mice were "able to recover their functions after developing the symptoms" but they believe, in humans, the vaccine will only work "in the early stages of the disease, when symptoms are light."

If this vaccine works, this will be phenomenal --- and will benefit millions, if not billions, of people worldwide. According to a special, Boomer Century 1946-2046, on the NYC PBS channel, if the onset of Alzheimer's can be delayed by just 5 years, half of all nursing homes would be empty. Can you imagine the cost savings, not only to the individual families, but to the nation?
This is something well worth thinking about.