The flu virus changes every year, making it difficult to treat and meaning a different vaccine is needed yearly.
With ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia the treatment changes almost for every person, so different treatments and drugs have to be tried for every person to find one that helps.
And you get better from the flu, you don't get better from what we have.
So in fact it's completely different from the flu virus - my bad.
So how do you find a cure for something that affects those who suffer it so differently? There are so many stories of different drugs that 'gave me my life back' that it is impossible to engineer one cure for us all.
Of course I hope I am completely wrong.
There is of course one supplement that actually works for over ninety percent of us - cannabis oil. No THC so no high and therefore no possibility of addiction, but because of the word 'cannabis' it has more opposition than an Australian Prime Minister.
There is more than thirty years of science that proves it works, has no side affects and is not addictive. Had it been developed by a large pharmaceutical company it would already be on the shelf.
Unfortunately for the pharmaceutical companies they have no money invested in cannabis (to my knowledge) so they help form the 'against' argument - no profit, no health.
If I won the lottery I would start a business here in Australia producing cannabis oil and I would pay taxes, making the government a fortune and a few hundred thousand people feel human again.
Why is it so difficult?