- We don’t have a common cold vaccine because there’s too many - We don’t even know the cause of ~20% but they are presumed viral - Flu is more severe and has a vaccine because it’s only 3 virus families: A, B C. - All flu pandemics are from the type A, with the HxNy typology
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Lol, we’re just a sideshow in the viruses vs bacteria war for the planet . “It is estimated there are more than 10^31 bacteriophages on the planet, more than every other organism on Earth, including bacteria, combined.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage …
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Wonder if there’s any home-grade experiments or observations you can do with harmless bacteria that don’t require an electron microscope and won’t bring the FBI down on you. Hobby virology should be a thing.
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From first QT, sounds like most cold viruses don’t do enough damage to require adaptive immune response (specific antigens). I guess first response stuff like interferon works well enough?
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