Can we make a list of diseases or conditions cured?

You need to differentiate between “cured” and “eradicated”. Smallpox has been wiped out. Polio is almost eradicated, as is African River Blindness. But they are not cured.

There are very few real cures, just ways of preventing the spread of illnesses. But science is getting close!

Measles, polio and smallpox.

^^Most people live through Measles if they get it, but we don’t really have a cure for it. To treat it we just help manage symptoms.

We have a vaccine to prevent it, but even with the vaccine a percentage of people get it. There are Measles outbreaks all the time.

Polio same thing.

Smallpox was eradicated. We don’t have a cure if it ever escapes the labs.

I didn’t really answer the question.

We can cure Strep Throat. Important, because not treating it can lead to rheumatic heart disease.

We cure ulcers with antibiotics, but they can reoccur.

Lymes Disease with antibiotics, once thought to be a rheumatic arthritic condition.

Childhood leukemia has an incredibly high cure rate. Around 90% for the most common type.

We cure “little” things every day. Ringworm, warts, cervical dysplasia, positional vertigo, the list goes on and on.

Maybe define cure and how bad a disease needs to be for your Q.

Syphilis is a big one, right up there with Polio and Smallpox.
Millions of people and children born to Syphilis infected mothers suffered horrible deformities and blindness throughout the ages from this nasty disease. Really bad stuff.

^^ it is STD right?

^ Yes, goes waaay back thousands of years.

Syphilis is still around, but we can cure it. We can cure the damages in the early stages anyway. I’m not sure if it damages the heart or nervous system if the damage is reversible?

We can cure Gonorhea and Chlamydia and Trich also. All STD’s. Now they call them STI’s.

Rubella (German Measles) causes blindness in babies born to mothers who had the diseases while pregnant. We can’t cure Measles, not German or regular ol’ Measles, as I said above, so you just have to hope to not catch it while you’re preggers. We rarely see Rubella in the US, but it still happens. The vaccine is very effective, but immunity can wane.

If you include surgery we fix a bunch of things. Some cancers, infertility, bad heart valves, appendicitis, there are so many.

It’s hard to claim that anything is positively cured. Small pox, cholera, malaria, as well as others, are making strong comebacks with the effectual decline of antibiotics.

Small pox was eradicated in 1980 ! ^^

@kritiper

@Tropical_Willie Or so they thought. I heard it’s making a comeback. And I wouldn’t be surprised one bit…

@kritiper Where is the reference ? ? The sighted web page is the World Health Organization. Don’t you think they would know if was coming back?

kidshealth.com says “Odds of you getting small pox are small” maybe not impossible. “Supplies of vaccine exist in case of an outbreak.” Laboratory forms may still exist and weaponized forms would be difficult to create/deliver.
@Tropical_Willie Be careful if the information you are given by WHO and the CDC. They wouldn’t want to create unnecessary panic concerning something they cannot control. Like the ever evolving antibiotic resistant strains like MRSA, which present a far greater danger.

Small pox is in “laboratory forms”, your quote. It is not in the general population. Read your own references. MSRA is ugly, but the OP was asking about cured diseases.

Some forms of Meningitis. Viral Meningitis doesn’t work with antibiotics nor meningitus from other illness, like HIV, or cancer. But bacterial Meningitius is curable if caught early.

Small Pox is not making a come back!

Rabies is curable.

@LostInParadise Rabies is preventable with vaccine but not curable.
There have only been a couple cases of survival after the virus sets in.

Thanks for the correction.