Viral Vengeance

Discuss these questions:

Review this article, Model Virus Structure Shows Why There’s No Cure for Common Cold, and discuss why most people recover quickly from the common cold but once infected with the chickenpox virus, they have it for life. In addition to the chickenpox virus, provide another example of a virus that causes lifetime infections.

Viral vaccines and treatments are difficult to develop, and many viral diseases currently have no vaccine or treatment. Given what you know about DNA and viruses, offer an explanation for these challenges.