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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

When a vaccine fails, that can have downstream effects on how other researchers in the field approach their own vaccine development, and how funding gets moved around. If a Shigella vaccine fails, researchers save a lot of money by not testing it in the field and having it fail there. But it's hard to find the counterfactual.

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