Question!

[clarkroe9]

I dont know if I am in the right forum for this but I have a question. I am only 13 years old so please try to explain the answer in the easiest way possible =]]. Okay the other day we were talking in health class about how there will never be a cure for the common cold. I was thinking about this for days and days and I thought, " Is there a way that scientists could create a white blood cell that could transfor itself such as the cold or even aids and kill these diseases?" Can someone please tell me if there is a way or if I am just wondering dumb things.....?

[insane_alien]

Well, if you leave it long enough, your white blood cells will cure the cold you got. the problem with the cold is that it mutates too fast for medicines to keep up and with aids we don't know how to kill it faster than healthy tissue. it also destroys the immune system so it can't be fought off by your own defenses.

 

The idea of creating a 'good' virus which is what your idea of a communicable immune system is has been though of before, we're just not sure how to go about it so that we can keep control of it so it doesn't mutate and become something really really bad.

 

Its a good idea but the problems are a bit beyond us.

[clarkroe9]

Thankyou