In Your Opinion...When will we have a Cure...take the poll
I will give you smallpox:
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
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"smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated from nature."
As for Polio:<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
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"The polio vaccines developed by Jonas Salk in 1952 and Albert Sabin in 1962 are credited with reducing the annual number of polio cases from many hundreds of thousands to around a thousand. Enhanced vaccination efforts led by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Rotary International could result in global eradication of the disease."
The disease is still with the human race, though of course greatly reduced.
Scarflet fever: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic518.htm
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While of course not of the epidemic levels of the 20th century, still infects humans.
As for the rest of what you stated, I agree. I agree only on the aspect of your wordage. "Treated" is what you said, and in that you are correct. "Treated" does not mean "cured". Smallpox is not even "cured", though it is the closest. The biggest connection between everything you mentioned (antibiotics, technology scans, etc) all hold the idea that they will continue to be used for treatment of the symptoms, and not "cure" the problem. Hence my original statement dealing with the term cure remains the same.
Profit drives the entire human race, and especially so the western world. It makes zero sense to create a one use "cure" for any health problem, when you can make a medication that just eases it's symptoms where it needs to be taken either many many times, or for the lifespan of the infected. With everything else in life, just follow the money.
