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Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by ejb999 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:59AM (#34324143)
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.

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by cloutchaser on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:28AM (#34324510)
Hm, at first I thought you were being unnecessarily dramatic, but vaccines have caused huge problems in chickens, where an unvaccinated chicken is now almost guaranteed to die. You could easily create a similar situation.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vac...

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by ejb999 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:12AM (#34325073)
It's not just vaccines - lots of examples where we do one thing to solve one problem, and it causes several problems down the road that then need to be solved for.

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.

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by dmix on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:19AM (#34325175)
That particular vacinne was unique, in that the virus still survived:

> 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...

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by cloutchaser on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:07AM (#34325930)
As far as I know it's rare for vaccines to actually prevent transmission for viruses. This is why quite a few vets were extremely cautious about the covid vaccine. I think we got lucky that it didn't turn into a marek situation with covid. And it still could.
Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by RetpolineDrama on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:15AM (#34326041)
>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.

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.

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by oldgradstudent on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:54AM (#34326732)
> 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

The some evidence that one of the most common childhood vaccines, the acellular pertussis vaccine, may be in this category.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1314688110

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by hellothere1337 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:26AM (#34325272)
this seems great for vaccine producers though, you just create an arms race which means infinite revenue
Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by tptacek on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:51AM (#34325676)
That would be fitting, because, at least in North America, neither has any meaningful ecological role outside of being livestock. If anything, it's ecologically problematic to make honeybees even more competitive against native pollinators. Let the Paenibacillus do its work!
Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by mrguyorama on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:18PM (#34330038)
What natural pollinators exist in north america and are they adapted enough to an agriculture based society that they will meet our pollinating needs?

If you have a cheap, easy solution to pollination in america for various industrialized crops, you can go make bank right now.

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by tptacek on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:19PM (#34332355)
Of course not. Agriculture in the US is an industrial process, not an ecological one. Nature doesn't want California to be producing all these almonds, but that's what the bees are there to help happen.
Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by tricksforfree on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:26AM (#34325270)
Bill Gates buying farmland.

Bees need Vaccines.

We are screwed.

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by eecc on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:33AM (#34325406)
BillG + Vaccines + 5G + Bees?

Of course!

He's building Beelink to compete against Musk's Starlink...

Re:Vaccine for Honeybees Against American Foulbrood by tricksforfree on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:41AM (#34325514)
You added 5G.

The point is that the ultra wealthy are going to corporatize farmland and the basic building blocks of food generation.

Soon you won't even be able to go to a local farmer to get fresh produce or meat (because meat is murder! /s). You'll only be able to get food on their terms, similar to healthy food deserts in cities that we see directly affect the health of inner city populations.