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2009-06-05

by shaenon on June 5, 2009 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Big Bad Wolves
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  1. SotiCoto
    August 18, 2014, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    … How would a vaccine help if he is already infected, given that the whole point of a vaccine is controlled infection?

    • WJS
      September 21, 2014, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

      I suppose one could generalise “vaccine” to include any treatment that must be proactive rather than reactive, even if the mechanism doesn’t match the classic germ-theory “vaccine”. We’re dealing with Mad Science™ here, remember?

    • Chris
      May 11, 2016, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

      Post-exposure vaccination is standard for some things. Rabies, for instance.

      • Kaydrien Iceclaw
        August 23, 2017, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, there are a few things it works for. I believe the idea is to get your immune systems attention faster than the disease would by itself.

        • Kasper Melchior Christiansen
          September 15, 2019, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

          What Kaydrien said is pretty much it.

          Remember that a virus or a bacterial strain has to reproduce itself to reach a population that can harm the host. The speed with which it does so affects incubation time at least as much as the overall harmfulness of the species you’re dealing with. If you can inject half a billion damaged versions of the pathogen for your immune system to practice against while there’s still only a couple hundred thousand versions of the real deal around, your blood will be flooded with optimized antibodies before the infectious agent reaches the threshold quantity that would allow it to harm you.

  2. Ardacil
    February 21, 2015, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

    The vast majority of vaccines can be effective if administered post-infection, as a therapeutic (rather than prophylactic) measure. They work by providing a weakened or inactive strain of the virus that is easier for the immune system to combat, and by providing chemicals that act as immunoresponse boosters, temporarily increasing the body’s natural production rate of white blood cells. As such, vaccines are certainly more effective if used preventatively, but can act as a “cure” for someone who’s already infected.

  3. Knuckles
    March 14, 2025, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

    Dog butt.

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