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Anonymous Mon Jun 13 12:39:54 2011 No.3220528 [Reply] [Original]

Why are there no good viruses that positively affect humanity.

i.e. night vision

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 12:41:54 2011 No.3220538 >2011 >never heard of aids

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 12:55:54 2011 No.3220595 Google commensal virus, there seems to be all kinds of stuff. An informed answer would take a good few hours of research, though.

>>	EK !EKFQOBUFnQ Mon Jun 13 13:00:54 2011 No.3220616 >>3220528 there are some 'good' viruses, OP sometimes viruses are used in gene therapy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 13:05:54 2011 No.3220638 There are, your point is moot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 13:05:54 2011 No.3220640 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-y7z6mjn0 Now you jelly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 13:55:54 2011 No.3220805 File: 75 KB, 187x186, 1299818661511.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3220538 I see what you did there

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 13:57:54 2011 No.3220818 >>3220805 I don't

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 13 14:06:54 2011 No.3220850 Interestingly a lot of work was done with bacteriophages (virus for bacteria) in the old USSR. The West used conventional antibiotics and behind the Iron Curtain these biological treatments where mainstay.