Future Medical Technology

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by glatt

Apparently the good (or bad?) thing about the pig whip worm is that since humans aren't its normal host, it can't survive for more than a couple weeks in our guts, so you gave to keep re-ingesting them. I guess that's good because you don't want them taking your body over, but it would be nice if you could get the treatment and then be done with it.

There's a chance that if this treatment is frequently used, we'll get a human-tolerant variant at some point.

Whether that will be good or bad is another question.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

There's a chance that if this treatment is frequently used, we'll get a human-tolerant variant at some point.

Whether that will be good or bad is another question.

It all depends on whether Monsanto gets involved.

[Lamplighter]

Bill and Melinda Gates have been spending enormous sums of $ fighting malaria worldwide.
But...

There are reports of drug-resistant strains of malaria appearing in some villages
where treatment efforts had been sufficient to reduce the incidence of the disease.

But also, with some success in treatment also comes complacency.
Funding for the bed-nets has dropped so primary prevention will drop too.

Were I to be one to approve mega-funding for malaria, I'd look to the geneticists
who are developing the "one-size-fits-all" influenza vaccine containing
all of the various mutant genes that are in the flu genome.

In any case, I hope but doubt malaria will be "conquered" in the lifetime of any current generation.