In world history, smallpox is the only disease considered to be radicated. With all the money we put into research for HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Parkinson's, MS, Alzheimer's, we haven't even found a cure for something as harmless as the common cold. I find it hard to believe that it's taken this long to at least find the solution for a few more diseases.
shareI mean, what kind of cure are you looking for when it comes to the common cold, better known as Covid in 2024?? It's a virus, so no medicine will cure it, but only alleviate symptoms and make it tolerable.. Really, it all comes down to TIME when getting rid of a cold
shareI brought up the cold because it's harmless, but there still isn't anything that can make us not get it or even alleviate symptoms immediately.
shareI am so disappointed, upon my understanding of Covid, and I know that there have been extreme cases, but being told to stay away from ohters for 10 days, and if you get it a second or third time, the treatment is the same, made me laugh. Like, okey dokey.
shareIt's much better than it was, at least in the developed world.
When was the last time you knew someone who had or died of Polio, Leprosy, TB, rabies or diphtheria?
I know someone who died of each of those yesterday alone.
I'm obviously joking. I know that we have had advancements, and things have gotten better. But I question how humans have been on earth for this long and we've pumped money into so much research, but have only managed to eradicate one disease in that time. Sometimes I wonder if it even possible.
Someone very close to me was just diagnosed with MS. The Doctors assured us the meds are very good now and they are only going to become more effective in years to come. We were told there is no cure though, only meds and management.
It really does seem like the science of the human body and illnesses is a big frontier we are only slowly conquering. We are mapping the seafloor and put men on the moon but the body still confounds us.
Sorry to hear that, Shogun. You know my dad's situation. They told him that if he went through it 15 years ago, it would pretty much be a death sentence. Now it's highly treatable and even curable.
shareThe meds are really good now. When I was diagnosed I had limited options for treatment. I was told that most of them were just to help slow the progression. While there still is no cure, with newer treatments, I've been in complete remission for almost 5 years. I still get some paroxysmal symptoms, but I've had no active or new lesions in my last 4 MRIs. There are many different options for treatment now, and while I don't know if there ever will be a cure, I'm thankful that there is progress.
shareWe have a clinic over in Manhattan, they really good.
A work in progress is what it it and I' Trying how to figure out money and living arrangements.
It's all really come out of the blue!
I didn't know you can go into remission with MS. Is it common?
shareThere are 4 different stages to MS, clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), primary progressive MS (PPMS) and secondary progressive MS (SPMS). Most people when they are diagnosed have RRMS. That's where you have periods where you are fine, and then others where you are not.
When I was diagnosed 14 years ago, I was told I'd probably had the disease for years and just didn't know it. The only treatments I could start with were ones designed to slow the progression to PPMS. Now treatments are looking to stop the progression, essentially putting the disease in remission. There are new drugs, and new theories every year.
So while I still have a bunch of lesions on my brain and spine that won't go away, they aren't active, and I've had no new ones in 4 years. I know that this isn't a cure, and there is a good chance that I will relapse in the future, but I'm hoping by that time there will be a treatment that works even better.
I know someone who has to get a needle inserted in her arm every 1.5 years. She said it's extremely painful and a long process, but it helps her get through it until she needs to get her next injection. She was diagnosed at 16 which surprises me because I know finding it out at that age is rare. But at least there is something that can allow remission for you.
shareWouldn't surprise me if there were effective cures for some diseases that have been discovered and then quietly buried due to greed by someone.
share100%. I wouldn't put profit past greedy people willing to keep people sick.
sharei don't believe this at all.
shareI wouldn't put my money down, but I think it's possible. How can any of us prove that some guy doesn't have an effective treatment but is withholding it to gain profit?
shareselling it would make money
shareThat's a one time price. If Tylenol sold capsules that made you never get a headache again, there would be no room for repeat customers.
shareViruses mutate. So...we can vaccinate against them.
I do think that disease is a way of natures way of culling the herd. I think that if we had cures for cancer, a new disease would pop up.
You're still here, so yeah. I answered the question.
shareNo amount of medication can cure whatever it is you have going on in your head.
shareAbsolute contempt for you! And the irony is, I also have a heart problem, was born with it. I've been dealing with excruciating angina attacks since I was 19. And I'm a tenderhearted, compassionate guy, in a perfect position to empathize with you, but I refuse to.
shareOkay. Don't. I wasn't asking you to.
shareI 100% agree with you.
And please don't bore me with the, at least we were better than 100 years ago. What does that mean?
A friend of mine has an autoimmune that's wherein it mistakenly targets and attacks healthy tissues.
No one will ever convince me that this can't be corrected.
Many people believe the Earth has all of the resources to treat every disease in existence. Either we haven't found the proper combination, or someone is hiding it.
shareThere's no cure yet for the common cold because there are at least 160 different strains of rhinoviruses that cause it. It's incredibly difficult to create a vaccine or drug that will target all those strains. Scientists are working to see if there's a common viral structure that is common to all strains. If they can target an immune response to that common structure, then they could design a vaccine that would protect against every strain of the rhinovirus.
shareI wonder how they were able to eliminate smallpox years ago. It seems they suddenly come up with vaccines when it's a disease that is growing rapidly like the bird flu or COVID.
shareOne must keep in mind that the Covid vaccine happened quite quickly because there were already 10 years of research into SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), the virus that caused the SARS outbreak in 2002-04. So, it was a matter of deciphering the exact genetic makeup of Covid 19, or SARS-CoV-2, to develop the proper vaccine.
shareFunny to think how crazy we went with SARS fear, and yet less than 800 people died worldwide.
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