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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (106265)6/18/2005 11:35:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
It think that once penicillin and some other basic drugs were developed, there really have not been hugely striking benefits of drugs. We have saved hundreds of millions of people in the last fifty years? With what?

When I was born, polio was still a dread disease. It is not any longer, thanks to vaccines. According to one website, "Poliomyelitis has been around since ancient times. There is still no cure for the disease. But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it." That was in 1952.
pbs.org

"In 1967 the World Health Organization (WHO) started a worldwide campaign to eradicate smallpox. This goal was accomplished in 10 years due in a large part to massive vaccination efforts. The last endemic case of smallpox occurred in Somalia in 1977. On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly declared the world free of smallpox."
dermatology.about.com

Those are just a very few examples.

BTW, I have illustrated here a technique I encourage you to copy. I have not merely provided a URL and expected you to dig through it to find what I think was relevant in it, nor have I cut and pasted in multiple paragraphs (often in violation of copyright) again making you search for what I think is relevant. Instead, I took the effort to go and find what I thought was relevant, cited it, and gave you the URL so you could confirm the accuracy of the quotation and verify the credibility of the source. It is how I think discussions like this should be carried out, and encourage you to follow suit.
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