@ID_ethics @AlexJohnLondon There is a hypothesis that essentially immunity moves the exposure dose vs. probability of exposure curve to the right. I don't know of any data from natural exposures, but there are some from vaccines ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
@ID_ethics @AlexJohnLondon Gabriela Gomes is the one who has been exploring this idea theoretically for a decade +, and a combination of a chat with her and a chat with Gael Kurath @USGS at a conference led me to work with both of them, @ecoevo_kel and Andrew Wargo @VIMS_News et al. on this
@ID_ethics @AlexJohnLondon @USGS @ecoevo_kel @VIMS_News one of those elusive conference poster ->conversation -> plans on a napkin -> grant proposal -> science -> paper things you almost never experience but what a joy when it happens. Funny thing was that only after conversation w Gael did I realize my ideas were channeling Gabriela
@ID_ethics @AlexJohnLondon @USGS @ecoevo_kel @VIMS_News And in the end we all did work together which was great. Such chance meetings are rare, but a casualty of no conferences.
@ID_ethics @AlexJohnLondon @USGS @ecoevo_kel @VIMS_News Forgot to link one of Gabriela’s key papers tho she has been on this track for much longer journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…
