and hopefully new vaccine development, not just for humans but all wildlife, particularly bats. A new mRNA vaccine can be assembled in days so the cost of vaccine development is getting cheap enough to fight viruses in wild animals before they make the jump. For animals there is less need for expensive FDA oversight and lengthy clinical trials.
A teaspoon of seawater also contains 50 million marine viruses, so these parasitic hijackers of biology are everywhere.
Well, I’m enthusiastic about mRNA technology too, esp. combatting pathogens in livestock (swine flu, anyone?)
But, BATS? How do you propose to vaccinate BATS in the wild? Stun them with wide-field phasers, 1st?