Charby:
I figured it would have to be a protein that is found in every variant of a said virus. As mentioned in the article the common protein is not one that is normally detected by the immune system.
That kinda tickled something I've been wondering about for a couple of years.
Here, we've been designing, essentially, "weak" viruses to wake up the immune system, and the viruses change, so we can't keep up with it on an immunity basis.
Why can't we develop a viricide, as in a poison, that affects something
common to all the related and mutated viruses, like plant-specific pesticides.
I mean, we've got pesticides/herbicides that are specific to broad-leaf weeds, but not, like grass and such.
Seems we've been running down the wrong track on this, and colds, for decades. Why can't we develop a "coldicide" and a "fluicide" specifically poisonous to something in those viruses?
As Charby seems to have touched on.
Terry, 230RN