re: Killz Thread: What's the weirdest hypothetical way for the end of all humanity?

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ETA: If we can distribute edible rabies vaccines for wildlife, surely we could come up with a plan for people.

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Time is the critical factor, even with vaccines for flu pandemics. The capacity for producing a vaccine for say, the H5N1 bird flu virus which has gone to a pandemic status would be a minimum of 6 months. 3 months to develop the vaccine and switch existing vaccine factories to it and another 3 months to crank out enough for about 600 million doses, the current total capacity for the world's existing labs.

It would take much longer to develop a weaponized rabies vaccine and refit factories to mass produce it.