> if that's the price to pay to avoid childhood leukaemia it is too high Curing leukemia requires multiple rounds of chemotherapy, which are drugs that attempt

> if that's the price to pay to avoid childhood leukaemia it is too high Curing leukemia requires multiple rounds of chemotherapy, which are drugs that attempt to kill as much as possible without killing anything important. They aren't particularly safe (which is why cancer patients lose their hair). Once you've cured it, you haven't actually cured it[1]. 10% die from ALL, even treated. Gastroenteritis is an infection. Sometimes it's bacterial and a round of antibiotics (or possibly probiotics) will do the trick. Once it's cured, it's cured for good. We aren't in 1903. 0.085% die from gastroenteritis usually because they go untreated. [1]: https://xkcd.com/931/ https://xkcd.com/931/