Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
mankind doesn't have a particularly strong track record of messing with mother nature without all kinds of unintended side-effects down the road.
mankind doesn't have a particularly strong track record of messing with mother nature without all kinds of unintended side-effects down the road.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vac...
> Infection of the host and the transmission of the virus are not inhibited by the vaccine. This contrasts with most other vaccines, where infection of the host is prevented.
Leaky vaccines are a serious problem but only a small group of vaccines fit that definition and, so far, that's the only real example of it happening in animals at scale.
https://www.livescience.com/51682-vaccines-evolve-deadlier-v...
One problem is that BigPharmaCo has an extreme financial incentive to induce this scenario. They could turn every person on earth into a lifelong subscriber.
There is some evidence that one of the most common childhood vaccines, the acellular pertussis vaccine, may be in this category.
draining the everglades, using ddt, importing asian carp, lionfish, releasing pythons in the everglades etc - mother nature keeps telling us that she already figured a lot of things out over millions of years, so tread carefully. Not all of those things were done deliberately to solve a problem - but they were all done by mankind, and we are still trying to recover from the after effects.
If you have a cheap, easy solution to pollination in america for various industrialized crops, you can go make bank right now.