CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-215 hours agoCan harmless viruses be engineered to deliver vaccine payloads for different, actually harmful viruses?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up129arrow-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-215 hours agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDeath_Equity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down4·15 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-squareCrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 hours agoNo, that’s why I asked. Hopefully someone can enlighten us.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·14 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-up1arrow-down1·7 hours agoLaughter is contagious. Surely other good things can be contagious, too.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·13 hours agoExcept viruses aren’t living, and we already use them for vaccines.
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?
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.
Except viruses aren’t living, and we already use them for vaccines.