1 Comment
⭠ Return to thread

It is a way to use the molecule factory of other organisms to supply whatever your own molecule factory isn't producing - so you have horses making antitoxin antibodies, you pump that into a kid whose immune system hasn't ramped up yet. But what else goes along for the ride?

mRNA in animals for food thus isn't quite as drastic a violation of the natural separation between organisms.

As for bypassing natural defenses, it isn't just mucosa, but the lymph tissue that normally needs to be "slapped" into producing an immune response by a big exposure to virus. With injected polio it gets access to nerves without any action going on in lymph nodes. No immune response at first, just transmission from neuron to neuron as far as it wants to go. But then when the immune response happens, ie some virus finally does end up in lymph tissue either from the injection spread or a coincident natural infection, a rapid destruction of the same infected motor neurons. So goes my theory at least...

Expand full comment