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> How does it do so? Vaccines appeared to be effective at eradicating polio and smallpox Totally - and that's why it's important work. But eradication of a sp
by jMyles 4y ago
> How does it do so? Vaccines appeared to be effective at eradicating polio and smallpox
Totally - and that's why it's important work.
But eradication of a specific pathogen is orthogonal to overcoming the threat of antimicrobial resistance. As long as we're offering super powers to pathogens, somebody will step up and take them.
- jMyles 4y ago(I'm unable to edit, so I want to add this note: polio is not eradicated, and the discussion surrounding its purported eradication seems, to me, to have a whiff of racism or even colonialism. Although outbreaks happen and gain media notoriety in Africa, let's keep in mind that, when we started doing more serious pathogen surveillance in sewage systems during the SARS-COV-2 outbreak, we found it in the USA too.)