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If we can't kill these infections after they happen: Can we develop vaccines against them to prevent occurrence?

• gph 10y ago
  There are pneumonia vaccines[1], but they mostly cover the main bacterial strains that cause it. A lot of diseases like pneumonia can be caused by multiple strains of bacteria. It's hard to vaccinate against all of them. [1]http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pneumo/default.htm http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pneumo/default.htm
  • jwatte 10y ago
    Hard, yes. Harder than curing resistant infections?
    • Fomite 10y ago
      Potentially, yes. There are many, many microbes who have antigenic profiles that make them very poor candidates for vaccines.