Antivirals and antiviral resistance testing :Drug company spends less on anti viral research compared to antibiotics development. Also antiviral resistance tests are not easily available. So lot of scope and investment needed in this field.
Some times if problems are tough to solve, one needs to correlate to others who solved it be it other species.
Imagine fighting an intruder outside or inside your house. The chances of success and damage is less if battle is won outside.
Once intruder is inside, battle can still be won but with some damage and some smart moves. The key is you should know your house better than intruder.
In the current context, medical researchers needs to pay more attention to understanding how human natural defenses like good bacteria, immune system can be put to use to block the spread of the virus and kill the intruder. Its hide and seek game, but expectation is we should know our body internals working mechanisms lot better than we do now. If not its just the beginning. more viruses will come. They need to develop threat models and work on them mapping the bacteria which are already present in humans to tackle the threat along with IS.
Looking for weakness in intruder and making a weapon (drug or antibiotic or vaccine) to kill is not always feasible. The problem with world today is making weapons is profitable business.
Drug company spends less on anti viral research compared to antibiotics development. Also antiviral resistance tests are not easily available. So lot of scope and investment needed in this field.
Antivirals and antiviral resistance testing :Drug company spends less on anti viral research compared to antibiotics development. Also antiviral resistance tests are not easily available. So lot of scope and investment needed in this field.
Some times if problems are tough to solve, one needs to correlate to others who solved it be it other species.
Imagine fighting an intruder outside or inside your house. The chances of success and damage is less if battle is won outside.
Once intruder is inside, battle can still be won but with some damage and some smart moves. The key is you should know your house better than intruder.
In the current context, medical researchers needs to pay more attention to understanding how human natural defenses like good bacteria, immune system can be put to use to block the spread of the virus and kill the intruder. Its hide and seek game, but expectation is we should know our body internals working mechanisms lot better than we do now. If not its just the beginning. more viruses will come. They need to develop threat models and work on them mapping the bacteria which are already present in humans to tackle the threat along with IS.
Looking for weakness in intruder and making a weapon (drug or antibiotic or vaccine) to kill is not always feasible. The problem with world today is making weapons is profitable business.
Drug company spends less on anti viral research compared to antibiotics development. Also antiviral resistance tests are not easily available. So lot of scope and investment needed in this field.