To: ajtj99 who wrote (15030 ) 11/4/2013 1:42:26 AM From: Libbyt Read Replies (2) | Respond to The biotech revolution that is upon us is about to obliterate the 17% of the US economy that is health care. Cancer will be cured like a common cold. Most viruses will be treated and cured like the common cold. AIDS will practically disappear like Polio did. Heart disease, pulmonary disease, diabetes? All will be easily treatable and go away. Need a new organ? No problem. We'll grow one for you. 20-years from now, if you want to die, you're going to have to really work at it, most likely by accident or suicide. I would love it if some of your above predictions were to come true. Unfortunately, I'm not as optimistic as you are about "cancer being cured like a common cold", viruses being treated easily, and AIDS disappearing like Polio "did". Islamic Fatwah [90] Kano [91] Deir Ezzor civil war [92] whooping cough ( / ' h u? p ? ? k ? f / / ' hw u? p ? ? k ? f / bacterial disease Bordetella pertussis . In some countries, this disease is called the 100 days' cough or cough of 100 days. [1] vaccination [3] antibiotics [3] [4] Infection in newborns is particularly severe. Pertussis is fatal in an estimated 1.6% of hospitalized infants who are under one year of age. [22] Infants under one are also more likely to develop complications e.g., pneumonia (20%), encephalopathy(0.3%), seizures (1%), failure to thrive, and death (1%) [23] [24] [25] [26] Pertussis is the only vaccine-preventable disease that is associated with increasing deaths in the U.S. The number of deaths increased from four in 1996 to 17 in 2001, almost all of which were infants under one year. [ choice to retire early rather than to work with our current health care system. I personally know 3 Primary Care Physicians who are retiring in the next 6 months, rather than to choose to continue to practice in our over regulated health care system.
