Where’s the cure for the common cold? – IOTW Report

Where’s the cure for the common cold?

Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 18:00 MJA Uncategorized 12

Scientific American: Polio, smallpox, hepatitis A and B are all serious viruses humanity learned to subdue with effective solutions. Even the flu, which can shift and mutate each year, has a vaccine. And yet, there’s no remedy for the lowly cold.

That’s not for lack of trying, though. The hunt for a cure for the common cold began in the 1950s, shortly after scientists discovered the primary group of pathogens—known as rhinoviruses—behind the sniffles. Together it accounts for up to 75 percent of colds in adults. But scientists quickly ran into an issue that still stymies researchers today, says Peter Barlow, an immunologist at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland who is working on a cure for the cold. “The main challenge with rhinovirus is the number of circulating strains,” he says.

There’s at least 160 different strains, or serotypes, of rhinovirus, Barlow says. That means cracking the cold isn’t so much looking for one solution to one problem as it is trying to design a master key to open hundreds of different locks at once. “It’s incredibly difficult to create a vaccine or drug that will target all of those 160 [strains],” Barlow says.

The discovery of these strains, made through the 1990s, was a blow to vaccine development, says virologist Martin Moore of Meissa Vaccines, a company currently developing an inoculation against rhinovirus. “You’ve got this great number of serotypes that circulate all the time, and that really discouraged a lot of people from seriously working on vaccines.”   more here

12 Comments on Where’s the cure for the common cold?

  5. Anyone that has watched the Beverly Hillbillies* knows Granny had the cure for the common cold.
    Just a couple shots of her moonshine every day and in a few days or a week you feel good as new.

    *The best TV show ever

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  8. @Loco- about the guy “…grab the exit door handle, didn’t even consider soap and water.”

    And then comes along the guy who does wash his hands, and he grabs the door handle to exit. Washing hands is really important, but how they are washed needs a lot of attention. Grabbing the faucet handles after washing to shut off the water sort of negates the whole process, as does touching the sink. I will often use clean, dry paper towels to shut off the water ( I was taught that moisture in towels used for drying would wick up contaminates), then using the same towel, or another, towel to open the door. I often wonder why there aren’t trash cans outside of bathrooms. I may be excessive, but it is what I’ve been taught. I wash my hands a lot.

    If you do everything the doctor says to treat a cold, you will get better in 2 weeks, but if you do nothing, you will get better in 14 days.

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  9. Five shots of tabasco sauce as soon as you feel the onset of symptoms. BOOM. Stopped in its tracks.

    Ever see a mexican with a cold? Yeah. Didn’t think so. ¡ONDELE! ¡ONDELE! ¡ARIBA!

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  11. Meissa Vaccines, a company currently developing an inoculation against rhinovirus. “You’ve got this great number of serotypes that circulate all the time, and that really discouraged a lot of people from seriously working on vaccines.”
    The continued funding of NASA, MARS rover (sarc), Elon Musk, politicians pockets, such a never ending list. Will there ever be a time to focus on LIFE! Why are mentally ill GLOBALISTS running this MAINSTREAM psychosis? The Clinton’s believe in the sick F’ Sores. Hopefully The Clinton’s motorcade will be provided by “Mater”.

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