How be they competent to create a swine flu vaccine so hurriedly, but still can't variety one for HIV?

different kind of virus, H1 N1 is a type of flu virus which scientists have mastered making a vaccine against. The HIV works surrounded by a different way. Trials are underway for an HIV vaccine. There are other diseases that have be around a very long time that aren't vaccinated against yet any.
The big problem with HIV is that it's not HIV that kills us, it's our immune systems overreacting to the virus that damages it, leaving us susceptible to opportunistic infections - which put to death us. A vaccine just causes the body to produce antibodies to the virus, it doesn't kill the virus. Since the problem near HIV is that the immune system overreacts, they had to attack the problem from a different direction.
HIV is a different kind of virus than H1N1. HIV is a virus which ends up integrating its DNA into the Hosts genome. So pretty much the viral DNA becomes apart of the affected individuals DNA. First of all we cannot just simply destroy infected cell because eventually HIV genome would be integrated into most if not all of the hosts cells. Which is why a vaccine for HIV seem highly unlikely if conventional methods of vaccine production are followed. However it can be slowed down significantly with certain medication so it does not have to result in AIDS right away.
*I am aware that HIV is a retrovirus and it has RNA packed in it's tablet and not DNA. DNA is transcribed using reverse transcriptase. Source(s): University Microbiology.


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