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Probably the best example of this is the live oral polio vaccine. It's a bit risky (it occasionally reverts to being infectious) but in a population where polio
by roywiggins 6y ago
Probably the best example of this is the live oral polio vaccine. It's a bit risky (it occasionally reverts to being infectious) but in a population where polio is endemic it's much safer than letting polio keep circulating.
(In places where polio isn't endemic, you get administered a totally inactivated vaccine by injection instead. They don't give everyone that one because it's more complicated to distribute, the oral one needs much less infrastructure)
- ufo 6y agoAnother advantage of the oral vaccine is that it produces better immunity in the gut, which helps cut off assymptomatic transmission in places where polio is still endemic.