[Badeye]

Science has never figured out how to stop a Virus.

Geez, and I just got a Yellow Fever vaccine a few days ago.

I stand by my statement 100%.

Yes, you can have a virus introduced to preempt, but thats it.

[jas3]

Science has never figured out how to stop a Virus.

Geez, and I just got a Yellow Fever vaccine a few days ago.

I stand by my statement 100%.

Yes, you can have a virus introduced to preempt, but thats it.

Yes, I've noticed that people who think HIV doesn't cause AIDS are fond of standing by their statements 100%, even after those statements have been demonstrated to be entirely false.

It is a lot easier to ignore the facts than to admit you were wrong, isn't it?

The statement "you can have a virus introduced to preempt" doesn't even make sense. Are you talking about attenuated viruses?

You are presumably not aware that to stop a virus via vaccine, in many cases all that is needed is to prepare the human immune system to identify the virus by introducing a single surface protein to mammalian immune systems.

So since nobody is bothering to "introduce to preempt" for smallpox, and since smallpox has been eradicated from the planet, under your definition is it correct to say that smallpox was not stopped?

And if so, who really cares? The goal is to eliminate the virus or its negative effects, not to meet some weird arbitrary (and meaningless) definition of "stopping".

jas3