69 Times Science Pulled Off Something Spectacular—And The World Just Shrugged

Terrific news for those who it can work on. My brother had CF. Born in 1956, he was expected to die at the age of 3 but advances and very hard work on our parents part kept him going until he was 12, when he lost his fight in 1969. I was 15 at the time. As the article says, it is a miracle, but at great cost - $300K a year and it causes mental issues for many (said the article.)

Cured? As in they no longer have cystic fibrosis? Or a sustainable treatment that allows them to live a normal life? Either is amazing.

That’s awesome, i had an 18 year old friend who passed away from CF in the early 90’s 😓

Wow! That's right. I remember hearing about C.F. on a regular basis when I was younger, now nothing. Amazing!

HUGE news. My cousin's kid has CF.

Routinely given in the UK, and we thank you for it.

Amazing science. So many people saved from throat cancer, colon cancer, cervical cancers. Thank you, Science!

When it came out, you could only get it if you were 26 and under. The first day it was available for me was the day before my 27th birthday, so I drove an hour to my HMO and got the first shot! It felt and still feels like a birthday present!! 🥳 (Since I got the 1st shot, i was later able to finish the sequence.)

I worked with a software developer that got throat cancer from HPV. He had to have pretty aggressive treatment. He had a feeding tube (no fun!) for many months. The whole family (wife and kids) was involved in the process. If he had no one to support him, it would have been challenging. And if it didn't work, they would have to remove his lower jaw and part of his neck. Can you imagine? He quit the company during treatment, so I never learned the outcome. Great guy, too, very sweet.

Both my girls have had the jab. We're in Scotland where a study showed its cut the diagnosis of cervical cancer by 2/3. People always crying out for a cure for cancer....how about a prevention?

I disagree with the last part of the first paragraph. It WAS talked about when it first happened. Also talked about a lot at the time was when the price of the HIV / AIDS d***s came way down in price. The fact that it isn't talked about a lot now is a good thing (in a way) because IMO it is a symptom of the fact it is widely available. To give a different historical example - When is the last time you talked about / saw a news story about how amazing it is they have a vaccine for polio? At the time it was big news. But society has been benefitting from it for so long now that it rarely makes the news. You could say the same for many other medical advances over time.

There is no cure.

Ugh. Just spent five minutes reliving how awful it was.

Sorry this is not wrong but factually incorrect. Hiv is treatable to the point its almost gone and people can have a normal life. AIDS is not curable. Only 7 people in the world have been aids free.

"Almost" a non-issue, but not quite - not sure how it works with new infections that are treated immediately, but my HIV+ friends have nasty issues like аnаl cаncer.

Meanwhile Measles is running rampant because no one wants to vaccinate their children.

I got three of the Pfizer vaccinations and after each one I had the side effects quite badly (injection site swelled to the size of a grapefuit and was red and painful, I had uncontrollable shaking chills for a few days, a temperature etc) I also got Covid, just the once, and it was the worst headache and painful coughing I've ever had. I dread to think what I would have been like without the vaccine. It was absolutely fantastic how quickly it was developed, and yes, a scientific miracle.

I remember when I finally got the first Covid shot. I almost cried, I was so relieved. Only two weeks' wait and there was at least *some* protection.

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Whilst I was very much in favour of it, I do worry that there are long-term side-effects that we won't know for a while.

And we could have done away with polio by now, if not for a few religious idiots preventing vaccination in parts of the middle east.

And to think there are many who believe an uneducated idiot on TikTok over virologists and scientists and now believe vaccines are bad but then again, I knew people who had polio. We are in scary and sad times.

Just the way the last people were forcefully vaccinated was not done very ethically correct. That should not have been necessary. And now the anti-vaxxers will prevent more erradications

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Not all stomach ulcers, just the ones caused by H. pylori. Which to be fair is the most common cause. They never did figure out what caused mine.

And then they went on to overprescribe antibiotics for people who were H. pylori positive and did more harm than good. The levels of prescribing have now been dialled right back, because it turns out that a lot of people carry H. pylori and suffer no ill effects from it (in the same way that a lot of people have strep bacteria in their nasal mucosa but don't get sick from it unless they have other stressors).

Turns out that once again blaming the patient was the wrong call

Fortunately the "half of society" does not apply in Europe... But we do not have an antivaxxer as a health secretary, so...

MRNA is amazing. Better than the dead virus vaccines.

Id!ots will buy anything other than fo what works, claiming Big Pharma is just out to get them. They give each other seriously wrong and dangerous advice and the would rather kills their kids than vaccinate. They should literally go to jail for child abuse, for child neglect and for killing adults by advising not the get real treatment. I agree, these new mRNA are just brilliant. It's like a basic recipe that can be altered to fit.

Maybe people is scared about some types of vaccines. Specially vaccines that include RNAm as components, because they consider that risky enough. Luckily there are still the old and trustworthy types of vaccines for people to use.

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Some people are allergic to some of the properties in the vaccine. They just didn’t want to get fired for having a particular medical condition.