new virus far more deadly then covid

AProudLefty said:
The virus isn't new.
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It is a member of the coronavirus family. It is a version of it that was new to science. However, Corona is not new. That is why we had to figure this one out. The science labs have the old coronaviruses in the labs to use in experimentation.
 
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Nordberg said:
It is a member of the coronavirus family. It is a version of it that was new to science. However, Corona is not new. That is why we had to figure this one out. The science labs have the old coronaviruses in the labs to use in experimentation.
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Thank you. First time I've heard of it.
 
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From the article ...

According to the World Health Organization, up to 75% of Nipah infections prove fatal.

OK ... they have 25% to get blood samples from and develop a cure.
 
Grumpy said:
OK ... they have 25% to get blood samples from and develop a cure.
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I cannot stress this enough, there is no cure. It will not happen, at least not in our lifetimes. This is a fantasy of yours. We should keep working on cures for viruses, but there has never been a successful cure for a virus. It just does not happen.

To find a cure for a bacteria, you simply have to find something different about the functioning of a bacteria cell to a human cell, and attack that spot. That is difficult, but doable. Cancer is more difficult, because it began as human cells. It does have differences like growing out of control. Most chemo attacks cells that grow quickly, like cancer, and (less fortunately) hair.

Viruses function as human cells. They take over the cell, but the cell functions the same as any other human cell. There is no obvious line of attack.

The immune system is able to attack individual proteins of the virus. That requires a machine that is so much smaller than anything we have available to us today.

To defeat viruses, we have vaccines, testing, tracing, quarantining, social distancing, masks, etc., but no cures.
 
Walt said:
I cannot stress this enough, there is no cure. It will not happen, at least not in our lifetimes. This is a fantasy of yours. We should keep working on cures for viruses, but there has never been a successful cure for a virus. It just does not happen.

To find a cure for a bacteria, you simply have to find something different about the functioning of a bacteria cell to a human cell, and attack that spot. That is difficult, but doable. Cancer is more difficult, because it began as human cells. It does have differences like growing out of control. Most chemo attacks cells that grow quickly, like cancer, and (less fortunately) hair.

Viruses function as human cells. They take over the cell, but the cell functions the same as any other human cell. There is no obvious line of attack.

The immune system is able to attack individual proteins of the virus. That requires a machine that is so much smaller than anything we have available to us today.

To defeat viruses, we have vaccines, testing, tracing, quarantining, social distancing, masks, etc., but no cures.
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YOU are the only one talking about a CURE. I still hold to the contention that 25% survival has something to do with a natural immunity.

Guess you forgot about a few hookers in Nairobi who did not have/get HIV. I never did find out the results of that investigation/study ... but the possibility is/was there. And speaking of HIV ... it seems as if the black plague shot had some effect on HIV.

NO ... I AM NOT SUGGESTING A CURE ... WHAT I AM SUGGESTING IS FINDING OUT WHAT THE SURVIVORS HAVE IN COMMON ... AND IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE A NATURAL IMMUNITY
 
Nordberg said:
It is a member of the coronavirus family. It is a version of it that was new to science. However, Corona is not new. That is why we had to figure this one out. The science labs have the old coronaviruses in the labs to use in experimentation.
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And the term for those experiments is ‘gain of function research’ lol.

Why didn’t you finish the thought?
 
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