HIV was identified in 1984. Researchers have yet to develop a vaccine. Does the public understand that developing a vaccine isn't necessarily easy?
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flipper1966 · M
@Quizzical Wow!! Impressive!!
flipper1966 · M
@Quizzical The things scientists are able to do these days!!
Quizzical · 46-50, M
@flipper1966 Well, they can if they get the funding, lol
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@flipper1966 And then the drug company question becomes...[i]Would you invest in looking for a cure or keeping people just sufficiently sick to know they depend on you for life ?[/i]
Kazuya69 · 31-35, M
@flipper1966 cancer isnt a virus, its a gene mutation on a cellular level that is very different person to person. This makes cancer extremely hard to respond to once the bodies own Nk cells fail to contain it. Since it literally acts different person to person even with the same type of cancer.Cancer can also hide from your normal cells while spreading through the body until a point it starts causing a massive nutrient drain on the whole system causing body wide failures.
flipper1966 · M
@Kazuya69 My point was that throwing a lot of money at a problem doesn't necessarily get results. And I think you proved my point.
Kazuya69 · 31-35, M
@flipper1966 Yeah that aspect is true to a degree, The more funding you have to go around, the more multiple sources and labs can work on the same thing.
For viral pathogens this has proven to be quite effective. As the more differing labs work on a vaccine they share data and can develop a solution far more quickly then if only a handful of places are working on the same issue. You are correct that just throwing money doesn't solve the problem, but often lack of funding is what drastically slows down the search for a solution.
The point in my response is this is the same virus being worked on that acts and behaves basically the same way within the body(even if effects shown vary), where as cancer is literally different for every person even who have the same type of cancer.
For viral pathogens this has proven to be quite effective. As the more differing labs work on a vaccine they share data and can develop a solution far more quickly then if only a handful of places are working on the same issue. You are correct that just throwing money doesn't solve the problem, but often lack of funding is what drastically slows down the search for a solution.
The point in my response is this is the same virus being worked on that acts and behaves basically the same way within the body(even if effects shown vary), where as cancer is literally different for every person even who have the same type of cancer.
flipper1966 · M
@Kazuya69 Not all experts are as optimistic as you.
[quote]“My optimistic side says the virus will ease off in the summer and a vaccine will arrive like the cavalry,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University medical school. “But I’m learning to guard against my essentially optimistic nature.”[/quote]
[quote]“My optimistic side says the virus will ease off in the summer and a vaccine will arrive like the cavalry,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University medical school. “But I’m learning to guard against my essentially optimistic nature.”[/quote]