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| Jun 25, 2019 at 14:13 | comment | added | Erik A | Your second option is nonsense imo. If you inject an individual with nucleated cells of another individual, what's most likely going to happen is that he's going to produce antibodies against those B-cells, they'll die, and nothing else. If you add antirejection medicine, you're likely worsening immunity. Obtaining sufficient amounts of antibodies from a single patient to provide passive immunity to even one other patient is likely not feasible, unless you have a way to significantly boost antibody production. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 12:54 | comment | added | Philipp | OK, so according to this answer you can manufacture a cure or even a vaccine from the blood of the person. But what if you only have a limited quantity of blood available? Does that limit how much cure/vaccine you can make? | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 12:20 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | "usually a bacteria": The first five diseases I searched for which have an effective vaccine are caused by viruses, not bacteria. (Measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, polio.) I am pretty sure that vaccines are almost exclusively anti-viral. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 4:14 | history | answered | Halfthawed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |