[TheSpiceIsLife]

It is astounding that Hepatitis C is the only viral disease that can be cured with medication!

We have antibiotics primarily from fungi derived substances, but there are no other class of substances we’ve been able to appropriate for our own use to treat viruses.

I find it amazing that viruses, which are supposedly “simpler” aren’t more vulnerable.

But thinking about it, prions are even simpler and have no know treatments.

This demonstrates, then, that complex systems can be quite fragile.

[burnte]

> I find it amazing that viruses, which are supposedly “simpler” aren’t more vulnerable.

That's WHY they're less vulnerable. Less complexity reduces the attack surface. With microbes, there are lots of ways to disrupt their biological processes, but viruses have fewer attack vectors, making it difficult to target them.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

My last sentence would appear to agree with you here.

[viraptor]

I'm interested if you omitted the anti-virals which break reproduction as not-cures in this case? We've got at least 3 of those for influenza viruses.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

Sorry, no, I wasn’t aware of those.