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I do wonder how effective and safe an old-fashioned inoculation could be in the absence of a vaccine. A small quantity of the virus could be introduced to your
by guidedlight 6y ago
I do wonder how effective and safe an old-fashioned inoculation could be in the absence of a vaccine.
A small quantity of the virus could be introduced to your leg where it is away from your lungs and bloodstream. Your body could fight the virus there.
- vikramkr 6y agoThat's a type of vaccine. If you want to figure out how safe and effective it is, you need to run a clinical trial. Same as amy other vaccine. If you got started now, you'd be running behind some of the other approaches that are already in clinical trials, so, um, get started fast?
- danieltillett 6y agoMost likely very effective especially if you were to find a strain that didn’t make you seriously ill. Pity nobody seems interested in actually finding such a strain.
- unionpivo 6y agoHe discuses that in his blog. There are 2 types of such vaccines. Live ones, that are exactly like you said, low infectious strain, and dead ones, where they kill the virus and it sometimes still produces correct antibodies. there are several of such types of vaccines in development