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I Wonder If a Backfire Could Help Reduce the Swine Flu?

Disclaimer: I’m in no ways a medical professional, my knowledge of viruses is through reading books and being a virus enthusiast from afar. So please take this idea as just that: an idea.

When fighting forest fires, a common technique used is to light a backfire. That is a fire intentionally set in order to slow, and hopefully stop, an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path It’s a very powerful technique and is used pretty frequently to stop bigger forest fires from spreading.

What if we took this same principal to viruses, including the latest Swine Flu? Of course this would be a last line of defense (it assumes a vaccine can’t be found and manufactured on time). But what about taking people who’ve had the Swine Flu, the less virulent forms, and taking that strain of the virus and exposing the general population to it, ahead of the more virulent strain. This would give the population a chance to create an immunity to it, and it could even stop it dead in it’s track as it hits a wall of immune people on it’s migration.

The downside is that you would be infecting your population with a milder form of a bad virus. Not a good thing. But considering the alternatives, this might not be a bad idea as a last line of defense.

Like I’ve said before, I’m not a medical professional in any sense of the word, just a virus enthusiast. So please take this idea as an idea and nothing more. I don’t know if it would work, and I don’t know that I want to find out if it would work! I just thought it worth mentioning.



 
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  •     Anthony
    · April 27th, 2009  · 9:21 am  · Permalink

    Vaccine: A substance given to stimulate the body’s production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.

    Isn’t what you’re suggesting simply a vaccine?

  •     Steph
    · April 27th, 2009  · 2:23 pm  · Permalink

    Hi Anthony.

    It’s not a vaccine as such. It’s like a vaccine, except that it’s not prepared from the agent, it’s the direct agent itself. In most outbreaks some people seem to get it much worse than others. In most cases it’s your genetic luck, and your health, that determine how sick you’ll be. But in some cases, as the virus mutates, there are less virulent strains that get passed around. I’m saying as a very last resort, it could be possible to directly infect people with this less virulent strain of the virus. With the real virus (less potent but still the full virus – unadultered), not a facsimile without the effects.

  •     jangelo
    · April 28th, 2009  · 1:18 pm  · Permalink

    Hi Stephane,

    I’m thinking I am Legend here. 🙂

    Cheers,

    angelo

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