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iI'm sure the government will snuff this out
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Why?
In other related news I consider this remarkable but why didn't we focus more research on Heart Disease first? It kills far more people than aids each year and heart disease patients generally didn't make some poor choices that led to them being affected by it. I'm actually a little miffed that at many points in recent history concern for AIDS ahs eclipsed that over heart disease and cancer. Of course, any disease that kills people is deserving of attention but AIDS seems to have gotten more than its' fair share.
Nonetheless, I am quite excited and hope this breakthrough leads to the elimination of AIDS. It may not be the leading killer but progress against it is auspicious for other "incureable" disease reasearch. |
Well, there are many causes of heart disease that are easy to avoid, and are common knowledge. AIDS is an extremely
new problem, and one that has grown astoundingly quickly in the last 10-15 years. AIDS/HIV can be transmitted between people, whereas heart disease tends to be down to one's personal choices/luck.
Not saying that there should be an unequal focus, but there are dangerous unknown facets to HIV that don't have true parallels with heart disease.
This should all be taken with the a grain of overpopulation salt :p