[Alter Kaker]

How many other viral (not bacterial) infections are we having success against?

Well, for starters, how about polio...?

[Teacher317]

The polio vaccine was/is merely a diluted form of the polio virus injected into the bloodstream. The body is left to create its own defenses. That's not exactly a discovery or technological advancement. If that's all we have today for viruses, then clearly we are not yet very far along in combatting them.

(Pardon my ignorance on our exact current status as virus-killers... but I recall being rather impressed that these microscopic monsters continue to baffle us, and I can't imagine any huge breakthroughs along those lines that would get by without some major coverage in the science journals.)