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Found this: https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-there-will-never-be-a-vaccine-for-the-common-cold-770451 https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-there-will-never-be-
by lysp 6y ago
Found this:
https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-there-will-never-be-a-vaccine-for-the-common-cold-770451 https://www.verywellhealth.com/why-there-will-never-be-a-vac...
> Vaccines target a specific virus or pathogen. One difficulty with developing a vaccine for the common cold is there are at least 200 different viruses that can cause cold symptoms, including rhinovirus, coronavirus, adenoviruses, and parainfluenza.1
> Rhinovirus makes up about 75% of colds. Still, there are more than 150 strains of it circulating at the same time.
> At this time, there is currently no way for one vaccine to protect against all possible strains that can cause the common cold.
It also goes on to say it self-resolves and only causes mild illness.
So they potentially could find a vaccine that covers most, but I'm guessing would be a waste of resources.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoI'm ignorant, but could they put a tiny dose of all 175 variants into a single shot and yeet that into people in one go?
- inglor_cz 6y agoThis could be done with the mRNA technology, where you basically "print out" the requested mRNA overnight. Encoding several proteins is possible. How the organism would react to such a flurry of foreign proteins, that is another question. 175 unknown proteins is a lot, the immune system could be roused beyond safe levels. It is possible to kill a person (or a mouse) by overstimulating its immune system.
- dsign 6y agoI'm pretty sure we have way more than 175 different antigens at any given time putting our immune system to work. Or we would, if we were still living in nature. In fact, I often think the issue with Covid is more than anything else our chronically debilitated immune systems.
- inglor_cz 6y agoThis is a question that would need experiments to settle. AFAIK the original research around mRNA vaccines had to navigate the gap between "not stimulating enough" and "stimulating too much" very carefully.
- maxerickson 6y agoThe question is how many are novel though, not how many there are.
- cyberlurker 6y agoIs there a medical definition for “yeet”?
- tempestn 6y agoRhinoviruses make up ~75%, but the other 25% are made up of only a handful (4 iirc) of coronaviruses. Definitely seems like you could at least make a vaccine for those, and eliminating 25% of colds would be nothing to sneeze at. (Pun very much intended...)