Can we list diseases cured? Or progressed in curing ?
To cheer us up.
I’ll start
Pellagra shown to be dietary disease and emptied asylums around somewhere around 33%. If someone can link the exact amount cured that would be nice.
Insulin helps diabetes.
Scurvy is cured with vitamin C
That is all I have for now. Please add to the list or expand on other answers or mine. That would be wonderful.
Funny answers like “cooties” welcome.
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Small Pox no longer exists.
Strep throat is cured with antibiotics. In fact we cure a lot of bacterial infections.
Childhood leukemia has an over 90% cure rate, considered one of the great cancer cure successes.
Polio vaccine not only helps, it tastes good. :-)
Rickets easily avoided with a good intake of calcium and vitamin D.
When I was a child, leukemia was a death sentence. Now doctors are able to offer advice, treatment, and so much hope.
Some states allow medical marijuana, and not a moment too soon.
Ooooooo, ooooooo! Any statistics about covid in legal weed countries and states? We might get some leverage with the right numbers. ;-D
Flu vaccine.
Vaccines for childhood diseases like measles, mumps and chickenpox. When I was a kid, all children were expected to get these.
Update Washing ones hands before performing surgeries helped patient care.
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