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I’m not sure what your point is. Ultimately you need to demonstrate a vaccine is safe and efficacious for the real disease. An attenuated strain isn’t the real
by Gatsky 7y ago
I’m not sure what your point is. Ultimately you need to demonstrate a vaccine is safe and efficacious for the real disease. An attenuated strain isn’t the real disease.
- danieltillett 7y agoNo you don’t if you choose the right attenuated strain, but even if you decided for some insane reason that you had to test the vaccine with a pathogenic strain you do this after you have shown that the vaccine protected the vaccinated person from the attenuated strain.
- Gatsky 7y agoHow do you know you’ve chosen the right attenuated strain?