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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
@ Spuds ...make sure to read what follows...
--Cancer: We actually do have vaccines for some cancers. Do we have some universal silver bullet that works on all cancers? No. Maybe this will happen some day, but it is unlikely because of the nature of cancer. For some types of cancers like cervical cancer (and related cancers), that are almost primarily linked to two types of HPVs, the HPV vaccine is most definitely an existing cancer vaccine, so that statement was false. We also have vaccine-like-compounds that are treatments and not prophylactics, that wake up the immune system to the presence of a tumor/cancer.
Again, this is a difference of severity when we try to compare it to COVID.
--Common Cold: The common cold is an upper respiratory infection with the associated mild symptoms. There are over 200 different viruses that are responsible for the common cold. These viruses also mutate rapidly. Unless someone is immunocompromised, the likelihood that the common cold would lead to serious illness or death is fairly rare. Because of all the reasons above, the ability to make a vaccine is hard and the demand for a Common Cold vaccine is not high. Most people don't take the yearly flu vaccine, which actually can kill and debilitate.
Again, the common cold is far from being comparable to COVID. |
It sounds like you are saying the hpv vaccine is for a virus that causes a specific kind of damage which can result in cancerous growth. I do not think that means there is actually a vaccine for the cancer cells themselves, though perhaps I am misunderstanding the mechanics of it?
Agreed on the common cold, I just didn't feel the need to go into that much detail.