Author Topic: True or False? (Read 4950 times)

Customer · « **on:** October 02, 2007, 05:16:56 pm »

Is this statement true or false:

"No viral disease has ever been CURED by medical treatment."

Queen Tokelove · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2007, 05:27:45 pm »

Of course, I have no clue if it is true or false but awaits the replies of some of the more educated members of the forum on this one......

milker · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2007, 05:30:00 pm »

What do you mean by cured?

There are two things: immunity and eradication. It is possible for an individual to get self immunity against a virus, so you could consider this person cured, for example I had Hep-B, my system is strong enough to have "cured" it by itself and has provided me with life immunity against Hep-B, but it doesn't mean that the virus has been eradicated. The smallpox virus is the only virus that has been eradicated in 1979 by massive vaccination.

Milker.

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2007, 05:50:21 pm »

Matty the Damned suspects a trap is being laid here. He would advise potential respondents to review Customers posts before replying.

MtD

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2007, 06:00:49 pm »

You could be on to something, Inspector!

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #5 on:** October 02, 2007, 06:04:54 pm »

It's all part of being an Evil Genius^TM, Philodendron.

MtD

anniebc · « **Reply #6 on:** October 02, 2007, 06:23:31 pm »

Quote

He would advise potential respondents to review Customers posts before replying.

Apologies to the Evil Genius but I couldn't do it...brain exploded half way through post #3

Hugs
Jan

milker · « **Reply #7 on:** October 02, 2007, 06:24:16 pm »

So I don't win?

Milker.

Ann · « **Reply #8 on:** October 02, 2007, 06:30:00 pm »

Quote from: anniebc on October 02, 2007, 06:23:31 pm

Apologies to the Evil Genius but I couldn't do it...brain exploded half way through post #3

Hugs
Jan

Heavens to Mergatroid, Jan! If that's the case, you better stay out of the Research forum completely. I don't want to have to keep cleaning grey matter off that forum all the time!

Ann
xxx

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2007, 07:26:30 pm »

The research section = SERIOUS INTERNET BUSINESS

anniebc · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2007, 07:27:25 pm »

...God forbid I should give you more work to do Ann...all that scientific stuff is too much for this blond...

Hugs
Jan

Oceanbeach · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2007, 09:37:13 pm »

True or False? I dunno, I always opted for the multiple choice questions. Have the best day
Michael, a frequently bleached blood
(who always bought used textbooks from the smart kids)

Buckmark · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2007, 12:02:16 am »

Is this statement True or False:

"One should explain why they are asking the questions they post here."

True

Smoothstone · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2007, 03:07:23 am »

There are reports of hepatits c cleared by treatment.

newt · « **Reply #14 on:** October 03, 2007, 03:17:47 am »

FALSE

What smoothstone said, hepatitis C for one
Plus some types of influenza are amenable to treatment with some antibiotics

Strictly speaking hepatitis C treatment aids the immune system to clear the virus and for flu the antibiotics are virostatic rather than properly virucidal so again the immune system is important.

- matt

Customer · « **Reply #15 on:** October 03, 2007, 10:55:43 am »

I just heard some claim that viruses have never been cured. I wanted to hear your opinion. so.... HEP C you claim can be cured (totally eradicated).

Nope, there was no trap.

"Knowledge is a treasure. The key to it is to ask questions."

anniebc · « **Reply #16 on:** October 03, 2007, 04:04:52 pm »

Eradicate=Destroy completely

The hep C virus has not been eradicated

The last recorded case of the smallpox virus was in Africa (I think) in 1977/78, and the World Health Organization decided to declare the disease eradicated in 1980...as far as I know this is the only Virus that has ever been eradicated..but I could be wrong.

Hugs
Jan

milker · « **Reply #17 on:** October 03, 2007, 04:58:20 pm »

Quote from: anniebc on October 03, 2007, 04:04:52 pm

The last recorded case of the smallpox virus was in Africa (I think) in 1977/78, and the World Health Organization decided to declare the disease eradicated in 1980...as far as I know this is the only Virus that has ever been eradicated..but I could be wrong.

I said it before damnit I want my prize!

Ann · « **Reply #18 on:** October 03, 2007, 05:00:19 pm »

In my experience, doctors who know what they're talking about speak of a "sustained response" when discussing an absence of hcv viral load. People have been known to experience viral rebound up to two years after the end of treatment.

I've had a sustained response for a little over four years but I hesitate to use the word "cured".

Ann

newt · « **Reply #19 on:** October 03, 2007, 05:12:54 pm »

It really does hinge on what you mean by CURE

In any case, the immune system does most of the work with most infections << and may times does well enough on its own. Is no herpes outbreak for 10 years a CURE? 15? Leukaemia "remission"? etc etc. Very few treatments are directly responsible 100% for CURE of any infection. Most antibiotics, for example, are bacteriostatic, they just stop the bacteria reproducing and leave the immune system to mop up the carnage. Likewise most antifungals.

More pertinent is whether any treatment for a virus is successful (in some sense) ie restores the person to good health free from the effects of the infection, much more nebulous.....

CURE is a word from before the discovery of the body's immune responses. << or a technique to make a good bacon

- matt

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