hahahahahahaha whats the worst thing that could happen? a superpower decides to funnel money into generating tailored antigens and releasing them for bespoke germ warfare? ha ha hahttps://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1412879629090758657 …
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Many indeed, but I feel that's far beyond the capacities of artificial tailoring. For one thing, in these cases you have not only a virus tailored to a population, but also a population tailored to a virus over hundreds of generations of brutal natural selection.
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yeah I hope you're right
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That's not alleles, that's acquired (or inherited) resistance, no?
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It's certainly alleles too. Sickle cell disease arising from alleles that confer resistance to malaria is the most well-known example.
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the people living in those areas already and not dying en masse, or in the second case the invaders having lived through the disease without great present consequence, suggests a genetic component interacting with the geographic
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