• Question: How many curable diseases are there?

    Asked by Mollieeee to Greg, Jen, Laura, Mobeen, Paul on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Greg Melia

      Greg Melia answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      There are millions and millions of them.

      A lot of diseases are curable by broad-spectrum antibiotics like amoxicillin, so there are probably some diseases that we don’t even know about tha twe can still cure. The problem is that if we use those antibiotics too much, the bacteria evolve and build up resistance to them, so we have to find new drugs.

    • Photo: Paul O'Mahoney

      Paul O'Mahoney answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      As Greg said, there are lots and lots of curable diseases, a lot of the time with antibiotics. This is why it is important for doctors to not over prescribe antibiotics, only when they are really needed.

    • Photo: Laura Haworth

      Laura Haworth answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      As Greg and Paul said there is many of them. A lot of the research concentrates on those diseases we have yet to currently find a cure for.

    • Photo: Jen Lowe

      Jen Lowe answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Thousands?
      Sadly there are many people in the world that suffer and die from treatable diseases. Healthcare is not fairly available around the world. Having lived in USA I appreciate the NHS even more – we are so lucky in the UK.

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