The super vaccine is a vaccine that would provide permanent resistance to a virus. Current vaccines only provide a limited level of resistance that is overcome when the virus mutates. This leaves scientists guessing each year about what mutated versions of the virus vaccinated for last year will be prevalent this year. For this reason ailments such as the common cold to diseases as serious as AIDS are impossible to eradicate. Any attempt to vaccinate against these pathogens is futile, since they mutate so rapidly.
A super vaccine on the other hand could allow the body to recognize even a mutated version of a virus. A virus outgrows our vaccines by changing up the protein molecules that allows the bodies immune system to recognize it and destroy it. A super vaccine would do one of two things. It could prevent the virus itself from mutating, allowing our bodies to recognize it indefinitely, or it could provide the bodies immune system to recognize the virus no matter how much it mutates.
Searching for a super vaccine is an important implication for diseases that currently can only be treated but will remain in the body indefinitely until death. It could even offer a cure for cancer, in which the bodies own cells mutate and act like a mutating virus, avoiding destruction and recognition by the bodies immune system.
A super vaccine could also be developed if we could predict with one hundred percent accuracy how a virus will mutate over time. If we could only predict what a virus would look like six months from now then we could stay ahead of the game. A tool this powerful would allow us to wipe out a virus if we chose, since we could vaccinate before it infected anyone.
The search for a super vaccine continues to this day.