Rabies vaccine was first invented as early as around 1885 by Louis Pasteur. I was just wondering why rabies virus has very insignificant medical advancement and is still 100% lethal with no cure.
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No viral illnesses ever been cured. That isn’t how it works. If the virus gets in you and is able to bring it successfully then it is in your own cells and it is using your own cells to expand.
Your only option with any viral disease is to manage the symptoms and let the immune system do its job, possibly with the help of a vaccine helping it to select for effective antibody production.
The biggest reason rabies is such a problematic virus is because it is able to get past the blood-brain barrier. And it then infects the brain. And even most of our own immune system cannot get past the blood-brain barrier. For the most part the brain has to rely on its own immune system and the fact that it is just so hard to get to.
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