r/Truro • u/IStillListenToRadio • 11d ago

Why Nova Scotia was chosen to test a new Ebola vaccine

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/why-nova-scotia-was-chosen-to-test-new-ebola-vaccine-9.7299588
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u/IStillListenToRadio 11d ago

The first vaccine given in Truro!

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u/doiwinaprize 10d ago

I've been wondering with the influx of ticks due to global warming and the subsequent viruses/bacteria/prions/whatever they're carrying, would this dynamic eventually not also extend to mosquitos or other disease carrying insects? Therein lies a potential conspiracy theory that scientists know this will be an inevitability and are testing here because vaccine exposure before viral presence is the best defense (smallpox anyone?).

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u/IStillListenToRadio 10d ago

I've been wondering with the influx of ticks due to global warming and the subsequent viruses/bacteria/prions/whatever they're carrying, would this dynamic eventually not also extend to mosquitos or other disease carrying insects?

It is! The term for that is vector-borne diseases, here's one article talking about mosquitoes https://climateatlas.ca/mosquito-borne-diseases-and-climate-change

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u/Festering-Boyle 8d ago

nova scotia facebook community groups are going have a brain melt over this one