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Why not? What if we can? How would we do that?
by hackerfromthefu 6y ago
Why not?
What if we can? How would we do that?
- bluGill 6y agoThere have been efforts to put vaccines into treats that various animals would eat. However not all vaccines can be delivered in this way, and even of those that can, getting the right animals to eat them is tricky.
- inglor_cz 6y agoIt is fairly efficient with rabies. Aside from bats, most European wildlife is now rabies-free. But to pull this off worldwide is not realistic.
- coryfklein 6y agoBecause it's cost prohibitive to find every animal on the earth that has the virus and medicate or eliminate them.
- dorgo 6y agoHumans already eradicated a disease (I think it was a virus). It was done with a vacine of an altered version of the virus. The vacine itself was a virus which could infect others and spread among the population. So, you don't really have to find every animal. Most should be enough.