>>12670219>some agar Most of the these scary pathogens need special agar blood/chocolate etc.
>“ID-ing" the spike protein Let me give you the official answer first. It says the t-cells, but also the IgG, IgM and IgA to a lesser extent go for multiple „targets“ called epitopes. Often conserved in one family of
viruses. Like envelop, nucleocapsid/ matrix protein etc on top of receptor binding epitopes. So probably very few things are completely unknown to the immune system.
My personal answer (the mind blowing part). Virology is astrology. Maybe you won’t read the papers (although I strongly encourage you), if you want you can carefully listen to a podcast called Twiv. They have the mass ferret euthanizing guy form Erasmus there (the scary pH1N1 strain that allegedly caused the 1918 pandemic). And also at least two people, with military ties in state programs, related to Ebola and the scary bacterial agents in some episodes. Between emphasizing, how safe the labs are, they let out the secrets of the profession. In vitro meaning, what happens in some plaque assay doesn’t tell you anything. And mice lie and monkeys exaggerate. If you read between the lines you understand, why no virologists/bacteriologist is really scared. They also always talk, about how things where back than. No protection gear and they didn’t die in droves.
In the studies you often read
>no animal survived after day X>later: animals were euthanized at day XOr
>animals showed severe respiratory distress and were given buprenorphine day z onwardsStrange suddenly developing a condition, during the time something, that is know to cause it, was given to them.
>animals lost body weight>later: were feed once a weekNo serious negative control and always a strange cocktail of dying cells, fetal bovine serum and antibiotics. It’s ridiculous, if you read the papers.
