Many get sick every year with viruses and doctors say tough it out. How is there no treatment for it? How is it we always overcome it? Doesn’t it seem possible a super virus will come along kill many?

Question

Many get sick every year with viruses and doctors say tough it out. How is there no treatment for it? How is it we always overcome it? Doesn’t it seem possible a super virus will come along kill many?

In: Biology

Answer 1

A treatment would involve a thing that kills the virus without killing the patient.

https://xkcd.com/1217/

Modern medicine while advanced is still very crude. We rarely actually repair the root cause. Most medicines put things back to general the norm of what the body expects it to be and let the body heal itself