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This is awesome that we've seen another horrendous disease go from incurable to curable in my lifetime. While ebola hasn't touched my community like AIDS/HIV ha
by bifrost 7y ago
This is awesome that we've seen another horrendous disease go from incurable to curable in my lifetime. While ebola hasn't touched my community like AIDS/HIV has, reading this cracked my RBF and I smiled.
- Retric 7y agoA 6% to 30% fatality rate depending on how early the treatment is not what I would call a cure. However, at best 6% fatality rate is still huge progress.
- kijin 7y agoThat fatality rate could be the difference between "Meh, I'll probably die anyway and there's nothing anyone can do about it" and "Get me to the doctor asap!" in people's minds -- especially if it is known that early treatment dramatically increases the odds of survival.
- bifrost 7y agoFWIW Early AIDS treatments were pretty bleak in terms of success but that didn't stop people from making it better. It seems like ebola treatments have advanced much faster than they did with AIDS so I'll take it as a net win :)
- freewilly1040 7y ago30% is still huge progress!
- rossdavidh 7y agoIt is great news, and also evidence of how much better it is to be aware of diseases that happen in remote, poor parts of the world. If the rich world had ignored Ebola because it was happening to poor people (mostly, so far), then it could have become an AIDS/HIV sized epidemic (including in the rich world) before these treatments were developed. Plus the good karma of not just sitting there while your neighbor's house burns to the ground, of course.
- mlrtime 7y agoNot everything needs to be rich vs poor, I know your message is positive however we are not living in such a dire world where this needs to be pointed out.