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11635472 No.11635472 [Reply] [Original]

Hypothetically speaking, is there a way to store an infectious sample of a disease for a couple of years or so and have it still be infectious afterward?
Asking for a friend

>> No.11635548

Sure, you can store HIV in your body for many years.

>> No.11635550

somebody get this man some herpes

>> No.11635623

>>11635548
Yes but I'm trying to store the disease outside my body, Ideally in a way that prevents anyone from getting infected until I want them to.

>> No.11635626

>>11635623
I mean that my friend wants to do this, of course.

>> No.11635784

>>11635623
Store HIV in your friend.

>> No.11635795

>>11635784
It's not HIV he's trying to store, so that wont help them
It is a virus, but it only stays in a living host for 2-4 weeks at most, which is why it needs to be stored somewhere that isn't a human body

>> No.11635804

For anyone who is interested, google says snap freeze viruses and keep them at -80C to store long term.