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      Stomach acid and digestive enzymes will just deactivate most components. Live vaccines might cause issues (probably wouldn’t want to drink the TB vaccine). The post in discussion shows a shocking fundamental misunderstanding about how all of this works though. It is meant for like-minded people who would accept this logic.

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        “Oral BCG was used in recent clinical studies and it was found that revaccination orally induces circulating cell-mediated immune responses, but does not induce a positive TST in responsive individuals.”

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        It’ll probably clog something in your bloodstream. If it’s liquified really fine, then the salt concentration will be off. Not sure if one syringe would be enough to cause problems.

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      It makes me wonder if there are any substances that are safe to inject straight into your tissue that your body would even notice–let alone kill you–if you ingested in the same quantity as an injection. Icky taste aside…