[oh8eleven]

What serious disease is left?
Surely you jest. Muhammad Ali just died from Parkinson's, as did my cousin a few months ago.
My daughter-in-law has MS and then there's Muscular Dystrophy. Forty years of Jerry Lewis and $2 BILLION in donations later and nothing.
What about Lupus, Ebola, the flu (I had two relatives die from THE flu in 1918), diabetes, asthma, et al.
Do you consider any of these not serious?

[Vermont Lt]

Absolutely. They are serious. But do they impact the numbers of the big ones we killed in the past? Measles, mumps, bacterial infections.

The ones you mention are genetic breakdowns. Not meaning to sound insensitive, but I was thinking more along the lines of acquired diseases.

I think you will see huge leaps made on the genetic issues in the next few years. Now that stem cell harvesting has been “discovered”, we should be able to manufacture repaired tissue and nerves.

I have a degenerative nerve issue myself, and I did not think of myself as “diseased.”