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That's why I hope the global community shifts the focus from periodic vaccination to finding an efficient and safe cure.
by hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
That's why I hope the global community shifts the focus from periodic vaccination to finding an efficient and safe cure.
- Madmallard 5y agoCures generally don't exist
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoI don't understand what you mean. While it's true that the traditional approach to virus diseases was "rest and wait until the immune system does its job", these days are long gone and we have many viral diseases well controlled by medicine. Sometimes you diminish the viral load to the level you can function normally, sometimes you prevent the replication so that the virus is no longer detectable etc. Yes, there are many viral diseases we have no cure for, but wouldn't it make sense if we treated it as a challenge - and one of the most urgent for the whole humanity?
- ziml77 5y agoWhy do you think a cure is even possible (within any reasonable amount of time)? For many years people have been trying to come up with cures for AIDS, various cancers, and even simple colds. While we can manage those better now, we still don't have true cures for them.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoI can give you many counter examples, such as hepatitis C, that were previously incurable or hard to cure. For some diseases we have managed to get a sterilizing (=complete) cure, for some others (like HIV) a functional cure (=you live long and healthy even though the virus is still in your body). In part, it is a function of cost allocation.