/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8721832
What a well thought out, articulate, considerate, insightful post anon. It really wrinkled my think sack.

>>8713892
You're thinking too much like a /pol/ ack. Just stop them from breeding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunocontraception

It is trivial to modify salmonella or E. coli to express proprieties that are needed for fertilization. There are also methods that would target sperm.

It's actually harder to denature the bacteria and do vaccines than it is to just use a modified live pathogen.

In fact students have done this with live bacteria, baiting cat food it was effective.

http://www.actioncat.com/research.html

Both adding this to a bacteria and growing large quantities of bacteria in a bio reactor are trivial.

E. coli is so common in municiple water supplies its considered safe if its found in less than 5% of samples.

You could modify your bacteria, grow it in a bio reactor, freeze dry the bacteria, press the freeze dried bacteria into pucks and place them in rivers and streams, infecting millions. If you make it a benign form people wont noticeably get sick so no efforts to counter it would be raised.You would even have a reasonable chance of it being passed through most water filtering to a decent level.

Just how easy this would be really wrinkles my think sack. This is somersetting one person could do alone in a few months, reducing the population by millions.