| ▲ | d--b 8 days ago | |
Zika virus is in the wild and in virus banks. Since no virus banks will hand you out a live virus strain, your best shot is to fly to the rain forest, and get bitten by mosquitoes. At worst, it gives you an excuse for one last trip to Thailand… you may contract dengue fever and chikungunya though, which is not exactly pleasant. The case is not a patient, the woman caught the virus cause she lives in Brazil. | ||
| ▲ | adamredwoods 8 days ago | parent [-] | |
They're using weakened viruses. Virus use in cancer is nothing new, but an interesting field. I can see why pharma hesitates using it, viruses can mutate, too, similar to cancer. https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10... https://source.washu.edu/2021/03/zika-virus-helps-destroy-de... But plant viruses, like cowpea mosaic, now that's a virus humans don't need to fear: https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/plant-virus-based-immunoth... | ||