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Could this lead to mutated super-viruses?
by asaddhamani 8y ago
Could this lead to mutated super-viruses?
- varelaz 8y agoLikely not. Mutation that will help to survive this type of sterilization likely will not help virus to be more effective in other aspects. For example extremophiles are not very effective as infections.
- TomMarius 8y agoNot within our lifetimes (and several thousands of years on top of that), probably
- asaddhamani 8y agoWe have antibiotic resistant bacteria already today, and antibiotics were invented less than 100 years ago.
- TomMarius 8y agoThat's a very different thing. Adapting to antibiotics is not comparable to adapting to something wildly different and new
- mic47 8y agoCould virus mutate to be resistant to that? Sure, why not. Will it be super-virus? Depends on what is super-virus. If it means more deadly, then probably not, since this resistance is most likely not related to deadliness.
- gpm 8y agoIn fact the mutation is likely to make it slightly less deadly, since it's likely to involve tradeoffs that make the virus less fit for other purposes.