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Not true at all. There are issues with making vaccines for some viruses that are well-understood and seemingly quite intractable. And what about HIV? We've spen
by zeofig 7y ago
Not true at all. There are issues with making vaccines for some viruses that are well-understood and seemingly quite intractable. And what about HIV? We've spent far more resources trying to find a cure for that, and although some good treatments exist, there is no vaccine.
- hilbertseries 7y agoPeople don’t survive HIV and it mutates incredibly quickly.
- mongol 7y agoIs it the mutation rate that makes it challenging? Or something else, line how it defeats the immune system?
- Gibbon1 7y agoYeah HIV mutates extremely quickly. Over time people develope multiple strains circulating. Directly targets immune cells. Also I believe it tends to stitch itself into cells DNA and remain latent indeterminate amounts of time.
- hilbertseries 7y agoMutation rate combined with the fact that no one has ever recovered from aids. Vaccines typically “teach” the body how to fend off a virus, but we’ve never seen someone do that once infected.