Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains
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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.
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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Anen-o-me on 2024-04-18 00:35:47.

Original Title: “Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains” - Researchers discover way to make a spray-based vaccine that allows your immune system to defeat any virus in a way it cannot mutate out of. The end of viral disease is nigh.

I firmly believe that one day we will view it as barbaric that people used to suffer through viral infections, and that vaccines were made with attenuated viruses that still end up killing a lot of people (like the polio vaccine in Africa kills several hundred people a year currently, aka VDPV.

Once we’ve defeated viruses in humans we will turn to destroying them in our livestock and pets, then in other nuisance areas, like how bats spread so much disease by being carriers, rabies in animals of all types, and things like wild feline AIDs and gonorrhea in koalas.

This will likely result in longevity gains and decreased cancer rates.