CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 hours agoCan harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different, actually harmful viruses?message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareCan harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different, actually harmful viruses?CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 hours agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDeath_Equity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 hours agoSo you want to engineer a living, evolving, highly contagious virus that contains enough of a dangerous virus to train your immune system to be resistant to that dangerous disease? Do you not see how bad an idea that is?
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 hours agoExcept viruses aren’t living, and we already use them for vaccines.
minus-squareCrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 hours agoNo, that’s why I asked. Hopefully someone can enlighten us.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 hours agoI’ll enlighten you, It’s a bad idea. Engineering intentionally contagious things is far too likely to go wrong.
minus-squareCrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 hours agoLaughter is contagious. Surely other good things can be contagious, too.
So you want to engineer a living, evolving, highly contagious virus that contains enough of a dangerous virus to train your immune system to be resistant to that dangerous disease?
Do you not see how bad an idea that is?
Except viruses aren’t living, and we already use them for vaccines.
No, that’s why I asked. Hopefully someone can enlighten us.
I’ll enlighten you, It’s a bad idea. Engineering intentionally contagious things is far too likely to go wrong.
Laughter is contagious. Surely other good things can be contagious, too.