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So curing one disease can also cure another...

• freddie_mercury 8y ago
  No. You didn't read the article. “We can’t make any causal inferences” from these studies, cautions Maria Carrillo, the chief scientific officer of the Alzheimer’s Association. “Their findings don’t prove the viruses lead to Alzheimer’s progression, but there is a relationship, and we need to understand what herpes viruses are doing in the brain.”
  • ItsMe000001 8y ago
    Also, even if there was a deeper cause contributing to both ("causing it" is much more rare than a common contributing factor) you could cure one bot not the other if you don't address (or don't even know) that common factor but use some other path to address one problem even without knowing the full picture. When (as is common) there are many contributing factors solving one problem may be done by addressing only one or some of them, and that may not be the one that also contributes to some other (visible) problem. So "curing one also cures the other" would only work in an incredibly specific scenario, while there are many others possible that allow some sort of common factor somewhere, among many others.
  • sova 8y ago
    Actually, I did read the article, and I was talking about this: A second Taiwanese study looked at more than 8,000 people who had been recently diagnosed with HSV–1. Over the next decade, those people were 2.5 times more likely to develop dementia than uninfected peers. But again, that risk fell by 80 percent among those who had been treated with anti-herpes drugs.