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[–]SolarFlash 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also called: TRANSMISSIBLE VIRAL VACCINES.

They have no idea what they hav unleashed. God help us all.

www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/pdf/S0966-842X(17)30212-3.pdf "Opinion: Transmissible Viral Vaccines James J. Bull,1,* Mark W. Smithson,2 and Scott L. Nuismer3,* *Genetic engineering now enables the design of live viral vaccines that are potentially transmissible. *

Some designs merely modify a single viral genome to improve on the age-old method of attenuation whereas other designs create chimeras of viral genomes. Transmission has the benefit of increasing herd immunity above that achieved by direct vaccination alone but also increases the opportunity for vaccine evolution, which typically undermines vaccine utility. "

(Vaccine evolution into a deadlier disease?)

Different designs have different epidemiological consequences but also experience different evolution.

"Historically, a serious drawback of attenuated vaccines has been that haphazard methods were used to create them ["