As self-spreading vaccine technology moves forward, dialogue on its risks should follow
Scientists in Scotland recently penned the latest installment in the literature about the quest for self-spreading vaccines, inoculations that could move through animal populations like a disease, but instead of illness, spread immunity. In a new article, University of Glasgow researcher Megan Griffiths and her colleagues identified a herpes virus that might be turned into a vehicle known as a viral vector to spread a rabies vaccine among South American vampire bats. The herpes virus Griffiths highlighted could potentially help researchers overcome a big hurdle for self-spreading vaccine development: Pre-existing immunity to a viral vector used for a vaccine, induced by previous infection with the virus or a related strain, may block the vaccine from spreading. Griffiths’s team studied a herpes virus that can infect bats even if they were previously infected by related strains and therefore could still be an effective viral vector.
https://thebulletin.org/2022/06/as-self-spreading-vaccine-technology-moves-forward-dialogue-on-its-risks-should-follow/
The vaccine that spreads immunity by passing itself on like a virus: Researchers investigate potential for self-spreading, needle-less inoculations in wake of Covid pandemic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10536697/The-vaccine-spreads-immunity-passing-like-virus.html
Introduce it into the narrative now, after they've been experimenting with it on US for two years.
via https://palexander.substack.com/p/self-disseminating-self-spreading