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Well I think it wouldn't be an 'inactivated' or 'attenuated' vaccine, but we have other vaccine types designed to trick the body into developing the readiness f
by jshevek 7y ago
Well I think it wouldn't be an 'inactivated' or 'attenuated' vaccine, but we have other vaccine types designed to trick the body into developing the readiness for an immune response. I don't know if they could work for this type of disease.
Edit: I glanced at vaccines on Wikipedia, read the following on conjugate vaccines. Maybe we will develop a new technology to do something similar with viruses, training the immune system to recognize the virus by linking it to a toxin?
>Conjugate—certain bacteria have polysaccharide outer coats that are poorly immunogenic. By linking these outer coats to proteins (e.g., toxins), the immune system can be led to recognize the polysaccharide as if it were a protein antigen. This approach is used in the Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine.[41]
- the_af 7y agoInteresting, and thanks for replying. I realize I know very little about vaccines beyond the elementary-school-level basics (even though my brother is an immunologist... maybe I should ask him).