Transfer factors in disease prevention

In addition to helping patients beat diseases they have already contracted, transfer factors could be used in ways similar to traditional vaccines, protecting people against diseases before they've been exposed to them. Indeed, that is how they were used in the first place when discovered by Dr. Lawrence in the 1940s.

Researchers in China speculate that transfer factors will be useful in treating and preventing hepatitis B (Xu YP et al., 2006). Researchers in Italy recently made a similar argument for the use of transfer factors in preventing and treating newly emerging strains of bird flu. According to the authors (Pizza et al., 2006):

	“Avian influenza…presents a threat of producing a pandemic. The consensus is that the occurrence of such a pandemic is only a matter of time. This is of great concern, since no effective vaccine is available or can be made before the occurrence of the event. We present arguments for the use of cell mediated immunity for the prevention of the infection as well as for the treatment of infected patients. Transfer factor (TF)…has been used successfully over the past quarter of a century for treating viral, parasitic, and fungal infections, as well as immunodeficiencies, neoplasias, allergies and autoimmune diseases. Moreover, several observations suggest that it can be utilized for prevention, transferring immunity prior to infection…Thus, a specific TF to a new influenza virus can be made swiftly and used for prevention as well as for the treatment of infected patients.”