The answer to that lies in man's own genius. If we were to go back a few decades, we would reach a time when there was no known cure for “smallpox”, yet it's been completely eradicated from existence today. The answer is simple, science has progressed at an astounding rate in th...
Vaccines exist for all sorts of diseases, both viral and bacterial: measles, mumps, whooping cough, tuberculosis, smallpox, polio, typhoid, etc. Many diseases cannot be cured by vaccines, however. The common cold and Influenza are two good examples. These diseases either mutate so quickly or ...
In fact, only one person in the world is known to have been fully cured of HIV. Scientists are studying his case to better understand how a cure might be effected. The key, it seems, will be to develop a safe and affordable way of eradicating the viral reservoir that can lie dormant,...
It is high time we were doing that, for medical science has largely wiped out the terrible diseases caused by physical germs-diseases such as smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, and scores of other scourges that swept untold millions into untimely graves. But medical science has been unable to ...
"When explorers and settlers arrived from densely populated Europe, they introduced diseases such as smallpox, measles, influenza, tuberculosis, whooping cough, scarlet fever, malaria, and gonorrhea. Africans brought smallpox as well, along with yellow fever, dengue fever, and malaria."[25] ...
We are in the middle of a pandemic caused by a virus one hundredth the width of a human hair, yet it has stopped the world in its tracks. As viruses go, this is not that vicious. The terrible scourge of Smallpox was finally defeated by scientists in 1975 after wreaking havoc for well...
Patients with one form of agammaglobulinemia (X-linked) never get Epstein-Barr virus infection, and patients with another form (common variable) are seemingly cured by HIV infection. HIV/AIDS is prevented or modified by co-receptor mutations (notably the CCR螖32 chemokine mutation), HIV-2, ...
The answer to that lies in man's own genius. If we were to go back a few decades, we would reach a time when there was no known cure for “smallpox”, yet it's been completely eradicated from existence today. The answer is simple, science has progressed at an astounding rate in th...
Vaccines exist for all sorts of diseases, both viral and bacterial: measles, mumps, whooping cough, tuberculosis, smallpox, polio, typhoid, etc. Many diseases cannot be cured by vaccines, however. The common cold and Influenza are two good examples. These diseases either mutate so quickly or ...