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One of the goals of vaccination is to deprive pathogens of an environment faster than selection pressure allows the pathogen to evade the vaccine. That's how we
by quotemstr 12y ago
One of the goals of vaccination is to deprive pathogens of an environment faster than selection pressure allows the pathogen to evade the vaccine. That's how we drove smallpox to extinction in the wild.
- insaneirish 12y agoI think your reply just encapsulated what I wrote in a much more eloquent way. :-)
- IgorPartola 12y agoAlso, don't we mostly vaccinate against viruses, whereas antibiotics are to be used against bacterial infections?