What are the main factors that determine whether it will be easy to develop a vaccine for a particular virus?

I am aware that retroviruses are hard to vaccinate for because their method of replication results in rapid mutation.

But there are other non-retroviruses that also do not yet have vaccines, whereas some viruses were fairly easy to obtain vaccines for.

BTW can the word vaccination be treated as basically synonous with immunisation?

dv said:

What are the main factors that determine whether it will be easy to develop a vaccine for a particular virus?

If it grows easily in chicken eggs.

>>BTW can the word vaccination be treated as basically synonous with immunisation?<<

I would say vaccination is the action that produces immunisation in the body?

buffy said:

>>BTW can the word vaccination be treated as basically synonous with immunisation?<<

I would say vaccination is the action that produces immunisation in the body?

A vaccine creates immunisation

wookiemeister said:

buffy said:

>>BTW can the word vaccination be treated as basically synonous with immunisation?<<

I would say vaccination is the action that produces immunisation in the body?

A vaccine creates immunisation

The body and its immune system does that work.

BTW can the word vaccination be treated as basically synonous(sic) with immunisation?

yes.

Right consulting wiki it’s confirmed what I’ve been thinking

Vaccine is the act of giving the vaccine

Immunisation is the act of giving AND getting immunity

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Who lets these people out of the crib?

WTF does anyone use glyphosate from a crop duster?

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> What are the main factors that determine whether it will be easy to develop a vaccine for a particular virus?

Um, I think you need an expert to answer this one. I was naive enough to think that the sequencing of HIV would immediately lead to a vaccine.

But have a look at this article on the future of vaccine development

The most popular vaccines were all developed many years ago, from 1796 for smallpox to 1985 for HiB (and 1995 for Hepatitis A). There are still immunologists currently working on making new vaccines, but it’s no longer a well funded part of medicine and successes are few. One method being tried is to use blood and tissue from people that have recovered from a disease. But consider, in order to test the vaccine you have to infect people with the disease that you’re trying to inoculate against and these days ethics committees would seldom approve such deliberate infections.

If you have someone who is naturally immune to a virus can you create a vaccine from their blood.