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Does anyone know what research is being done on creating the vaccine and what are the causes that prevented creating one?
by xvilka 7y ago
Does anyone know what research is being done on creating the vaccine and what are the causes that prevented creating one?
- at_a_remove 7y agoWikipedia has a brief summary, but it is a similar issue as we see with colds and HIV: a highly variable exterior shell for the virus. About six years back, scientists found one region that is mostly "conserved," the docking station that latches onto a particular receptor in liver cells. Hepatitis C, like HIV, comes in different groups, and it has six to target.
- xvilka 7y agoThanks a lot, that explains the struggle.