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THE GREATEST
MEDICAL FAILURE OF THE LAST FEW DECADES,
CAN BE SEEN AS A SIGN OF PROGRESS? Since its first
major outbreak in the early 1980s, more than 30 million people
have died of AIDS, and tens of millions more have suffered debilitating
physical and psychological damage! Within another ten years new medicines
turned AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic condition (at least for those wealthy
enough to afford treatment)? Just think what would have beenhappening if AIDS had erupted
in 1581 rather than 1981! In all likelihood, nobody back then would have figured out what caused
the epidemic, how it moved from person to person, or how it could be halted (let alone cured)? Under
such conditions, AIDS might have killed a much larger proportion of the human race, equaling & perhaps
surpassing the Black Death! Despite the horrendous toll AIDS has taken, & despite the millions killed each year
by long-established infectious diseases such as malaria, epidemics are a far smaller threat to human health today
than in previous millennia?! The vast majority of people die from non-infectious diseases scud as cancer
& heart disease, or simply old age!? (Incidentally cancer and heart disease
are of course no new illnesses - they go back to
antiquity. In previous eras, however,
relatively few people lìved
lòng enough to
die from
them.)
MEDICAL FAILURE OF THE LAST FEW DECADES,
CAN BE SEEN AS A SIGN OF PROGRESS? Since its first
major outbreak in the early 1980s, more than 30 million people
have died of AIDS, and tens of millions more have suffered debilitating
physical and psychological damage! Within another ten years new medicines
turned AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic condition (at least for those wealthy
enough to afford treatment)? Just think what would have beenhappening if AIDS had erupted
in 1581 rather than 1981! In all likelihood, nobody back then would have figured out what caused
the epidemic, how it moved from person to person, or how it could be halted (let alone cured)? Under
such conditions, AIDS might have killed a much larger proportion of the human race, equaling & perhaps
surpassing the Black Death! Despite the horrendous toll AIDS has taken, & despite the millions killed each year
by long-established infectious diseases such as malaria, epidemics are a far smaller threat to human health today
than in previous millennia?! The vast majority of people die from non-infectious diseases scud as cancer
& heart disease, or simply old age!? (Incidentally cancer and heart disease
are of course no new illnesses - they go back to
antiquity. In previous eras, however,
relatively few people lìved
lòng enough to
die from
them.)
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