why is it so hard to make a virus killing drug?
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its easy to design a drug that “kills”(destroy is the term) a virus, its hard to make a drug that ONLY destroys the virus and not you with it.
Viruses arent much more then balls of protein and DNA, its easy to design a drug to destroy protein and DNA. problem is, humans are also have proteins and DNA so a drug that isnt designed SPECIFICALLY to only interact with the specific proteins of a virus and nothing else is hard, especialy as every virus has their own “Pattern” and needs its own special drug.
imagine you play jenga and need to remove a specific block, its easy to do that by simply destroying the entire tower, thats randomly killing Protein and DNA, but only removing the one block is difficult. also every block has a different shape and needs a different technique to remove
a Vaccine using the same analogy is just asking someone else to do it after you show them how its done via a more loose block(the vaccine) and that person being REALLY good at learning how to remove this VERY specific shape.
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