Hey, if there are ways to vaccinate either the carriers of certain diseases, the people who'd get affected by them, or even cure those that have gotten ill, i t

Hey, if there are ways to vaccinate either the carriers of certain diseases, the people who'd get affected by them, or even cure those that have gotten ill, i think it's definitely worthwhile to research it further! I guess that's how we ended up with vaccines for rabies being airdropped from planes, which sounds a bit silly, but is a really interesting approach to attempting to solve a similar problem for populations of wild animals: https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-southern-ontario/ https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-... Though i'm not entirely sure how viable doing something along those same lines would be for ticks. I do recall, however, reading about attempts to genetically alter mosquitoes to make them more resistant to malaria, so that its spread would be limited: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/engineering-malaria-resistance-mosquitoes https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/enginee... Maybe an approach like that could be viable for other types of diseases as well, without necessarily exterminating the populations of carriers, rather simply releasing modified specimens into the wild and letting them propagate the modifications through natural means.