• Question: Do you think there will be something that is never cured?

    Asked by anon-175280 to Ella on 21 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Ella Mercer

      Ella Mercer answered on 21 Jun 2018:

      There are some diseases, like the flu, that 1) there are so many different types and 2) evolve so quickly that vaccines can’t keep up with them. Every year the flu vaccine has to be reproduced based upon scientists predictions of which strain will become active. Sometimes scientists get it wrong and doctors vaccinate against the wrong kind meaning people may still become ill. People are normally ok if they’re healthy and catch the flu but it can be very dangerous for the elderly and babies. Because it’s maybe not such an awful disease scientists receive less money to try and fix it. For example, diseases like cancer are very terrible therefore cancer scientists get a lot of money to try and find cures – hopefully we will one day as a result!

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    hayleypincott commented on :

    I agree with Ella I don’t think we’ll ever find a cure for some viruses because they evolve way to quickly for us to keep up with them. However the way things are going with antimicrobial resistance there will be some bacterial infections we won’t be albe to fix with antibiotics. This means that unless we change the way we use antibiotics an simple infection in the future could kill us. That’s why researchers are doing amazing things trying to figure out what we can do to tackle the issue.