Physician here, great article. Let me say that on the spectrum of diseases if I rank them from weak to strong in terms of our ability to defeat them: Bacteria

Physician here, great article. Let me say that on the spectrum of diseases if I rank them from weak to strong in terms of our ability to defeat them: Bacteria - Virus - Prion We are so far from being able to treat prion diseases, it is an entirely different order of magnitude of difficulty than our ability to treat viruses.