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re: Dr Keith died
Posted on 7/16/15 at 11:09 am to Winkface
Posted on 7/16/15 at 11:09 am to Winkface
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How do you know this? Some blog?
Why would you assume a blog? Maybe family members and friends with cancer have led me to look into other options. The most promising of which being Viral pathogens which gets little funding.
How does one here know anything? Usually through reading. That said I rarely read "blogs".
Since Polio, which big disease has been "cured", there are vaccines and treatments, you don't see "cures".
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Posted on 7/16/15 at 11:11 am to Napoleon
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Since Polio, which big disease has been "cured", there are vaccines and treatments, you don't see "cures".
You still have to vaccinate for polio, don't you?
Posted on 7/16/15 at 11:22 am to Napoleon
Why would I assume? Because you're not in the medical field. You still didn't answer. How do you know it gets little funding. There are over 200 ongoing or recently completed clinical trials for only ONE viral drug used in the treatment of various cancers.
Modern medicine cures things everyday. Surgery cures a whole hell of a lot. People are walking out of the hospital everyday because they were cured from their illness. Sure, we'd all like to cure more chronic diseases but to say that there are only treatments and vaccines (which is still a big feat and shouldn't be taken for granted) is foolish. Who did they blame for not having a cure during the hundreds of years that polio was infecting people?
Modern medicine cures things everyday. Surgery cures a whole hell of a lot. People are walking out of the hospital everyday because they were cured from their illness. Sure, we'd all like to cure more chronic diseases but to say that there are only treatments and vaccines (which is still a big feat and shouldn't be taken for granted) is foolish. Who did they blame for not having a cure during the hundreds of years that polio was infecting people?
Posted on 7/16/15 at 3:07 pm to Napoleon
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Maybe family members and friends with cancer have led me to look into other options. The most promising of which being Viral pathogens which gets little funding.
I don't think this is true. I just saw a big thing on dateline about how promising some of these viral vectors (one is the polio virus, actually) are for eliminating solid cancers. I doubt it's purposely getting less funding, as you seem to imply. If a company were to develop and get FDA approval for such a drug, it would be a massive cash cow. Your big pharma "cures don't make money" conspiracy theory doesn't hold water.
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Since Polio, which big disease has been "cured", there are vaccines and treatments, you don't see "cures".
Your punctuation here is bad, so I'm not really sure what you're asking or stating, but I think you might be asking about what has been "cured." Very few things get cured because it's very hard to eradicate a virus. We basically eradicated smallpox, though. Polio isn't a problem as long as you vaccinate. That said, Seattle has lower polio vaccination rates than Rwanda, so idiots still exist to keep these things around.
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