• ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    16 hours ago

    Well, I get that. And at this point, I’m sicking of trying to keep people from setting the house on fire, while they are dousing themselves with gasoline.

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        11 hours ago

        Don’t even bother. They think you can vaccinate against bacteria. And they’ve doubled down on it three times now.

        • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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          Several vaccines against extracellular bacteria have been developed in the past and are still used successfully today, e.g., vaccines against tetanus, pertussis, and diphtheria. However, while induction of antibody production is usually sufficient for protection against extracellular bacteria, vaccination against intracellular bacteria is much more difficult because effective defense against these pathogens requires T cell-mediated responses, particularly the activation of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells. These responses are usually not efficiently elicited by immunization with non-living whole cell antigens or subunit vaccines, so that other antigen delivery strategies are required.

          https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9144739/