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Thomas Lake wrote:
> Well the fact the it mutates does make it harder to make a vaccine for AIDS.
> But the main reason is that what we normally consider a vaccine depends on
> you have a healthy immune system. Usually the inject a weakened strain or
> dead viruses into your body. Then your immune system recognizes the virus
> and produces an immune reaction and antibodies. Next time you get the virus
> your body has the antibodies to recognize and fight it off. This is not
> possible for HIV because of its vary nature. It hides away from the immune
> system so you never develop immunity to it.
They cannot inject dead viruses, and viruses cannot hide, because viruses are
not alive ;-)
> I believe current vaccine work
> is being done on trying to block the proteins the virus uses to enter a
> humans cells. This is quite different from a normal vaccine.
Yes, that is what's being done now.
As for the RNA being the reason why they can't make a normal vaccine; my biology
teacher told me that so it could easily be wrong.
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