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Nothing fails to produce resistance. It's all a balancing act.
by jfb 15y ago
Nothing fails to produce resistance. It's all a balancing act.
- ordinary 15y agoIANAE(pidemiologist), but it's my understanding that if you fast and hard enough, the critter doesn't have time to adapt. See smallpox.
- icegreentea 15y agoSmallpox was eliminated through a vaccine campaign. Resistance against vaccines is generally different from resistance from treatments. For example, since vaccines are in place pre-infection, the amount of target microbes in the body at time of action is pretty low, giving a much higher chance of killing them all. Treatment is usually given after infection, where there will be a large amount of target microbes. This will substantially increase the probability some critter surviving with more resistance genes and then passing them on.