For most bacterial (and even fungal) infections, we’ve developed medications you can take and the infection is gone in a few days.
But most viruses remain completely untreatable. The best we can do is develop treatments that manage the symptoms, or vaccines that boost your body’s natural defense and make it somewhat less likely that you’ll get infected, or if you do get infected it’ll be a less severe case.
The flu, COVID, RSV, swine flu, bird flu, HIV, Ebola, even the common cold. We don’t really have a “cure” for any of them. Why not?
What’s different about a virus that makes it so much harder to just develop a pill you can pop to make it go away?
In: Biology
i am a person not qualified to answer but here is my take.
virus are like mechanical faults gene altering like gears with missing teeth. wires connecting to the wrong port.
bacteria on the other hand are organic creatures like that pesky rat chewing on your cables . or dog peeing on your carpet. some times bacteria are harmless but their poop are toxic chemicals.
that is to say you can kill the rat, you can mop the floor ( damage done by bacteria )
but you need to change out circuits or replace gears which are difficult ( virus )
correct me if the layman me is very wrong
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