Why cant we beat viruses Many of you have discussed the vari

Why can’t we beat viruses?

Many of you have discussed the various issues with vaccine development like the mutation rate. Viruses have several ways of getting past our immune systems and hijacking our genetic machinery.

While we have developed some medications to stop viruses at various stages of this process, many of them still evade detection and destruction. See the article link below on how viruses work.

Why Can\'t We Beat Viruses? http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/21143412

Solution

The virus is a very simple structure. It has only the basic required genetic material either as DNA or as RNA and a protein coat to protect that material. When a virus infects an organism, it uses the host cell machinery to reproduce.

Viruses are difficult to beat because they keep mutating. Viruses are recognized by our immune system. However, to do so, our immune system recognizes the proteins present on the viral coat. Our immune system has a kind of memory which remembers all the viruses it encounters. In some types of viruses, the proteins present in the protein coat keep changing, so the immune system will not be able to detect the virus based on its previous memory of the virus.

The external covering of viruses is very similar to the host cell membrane. This makes it very difficult to target the virus. So using drugs against viruses is also not very effective.