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This is very cool. Pardon my ignorance about this, my bio education is limited. If I understand it correctly, would it be possible to purposely infect willing v
by voz_ 6y ago
This is very cool. Pardon my ignorance about this, my bio education is limited. If I understand it correctly, would it be possible to purposely infect willing volunteers in order to find a potentially attenuated strain for a vaccine?
- danieltillett 6y agoSort of. The basic idea is that we use an attenuated strain to safely test one of the more conventional vaccines being developed by deliberately trying to infect those people vaccinated (i.e. a challenge trial). Of course an attenuated strain may be able to be used as a vaccine directly, but this is somewhat controversial.