Scientists exploring bat vaccination to curb deadly human outbreaks

Whatever it takes to stop humans from spreading.

This is actually smart preventative medicine instead of just waiting for the next spillover event

> The strategy works by delivering vaccines to bats without capturing or injecting them individually. In the experiments, scientists used mosquitoes to carry weakened or modified vaccine viruses. The insects were first fed blood containing the vaccine. > Once inside the mosquito, the vaccine virus replicated and moved to the insect’s salivary glands. When the mosquito bit an animal or when bats consumed infected insects, the vaccine could be transferred, triggering the animal’s immune system to produce protective antibodies. So they're using vaccinated people blood to vaccinate the mosquitoes to vaccinate the bats so they don't have to vaccinate people?

It’s too bad Joker.. you see I have my Bat-Vaccination so your virus didn’t affect me.

Scientists are so desperate to help people, they'll vaccinate bats instead. So the antivaxxers don't get in the way.

*Nooooo!* Don't! Touch! Bats! Dincha learn from Jiiiihna?

I hate it when there is an outbreak of humans

But that will cause Wifi 7 in the bats.

Feels like the start of a zombie movie

Ok so this has neat written all over it. Until.... yeah there is always a but. Covid came out of the blue. We had no idea what the hell it was raising hell in China. They had to hunt it down old school. And then the wait for a vaccine started. By the time we had a vaccine bats were no longer part of the problem. Their work was done. Once you have sustained human to human transmission going where it came from it besides the point. And lastly spill over was studied in China. They have some massive bat colonies and a multinational group of scientists studied the people that live near them. They found lots of evidence of spill over in the human populations. Not one or two cases but lots. They estimated most of the spill over events are not contagious enough to start a spread and guessed the residents figured they had the flu and just went on with life. The scientists also pointed out when they were studying the actual bat colonies they found evidence that in spite of restrictions from the government people were going into the bat caves in hot weather. Beer bottles and water bottles and other trash scattered on the floor of the caves. And this activity would increase the rate of spill over events. TLDR If we don't know about the virus ahead of time this can't work. Covid came at us out of the blue. But the concept could work wonders for yearly outbreaks.