Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Viral infections: Modern medicine seems virtually helpless! (???) Message-ID: <1851@aecom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:07:57 EDT Article-I.D.: aecom.1851 Posted: Tue Aug 13 01:07:57 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 03:58:40 EDT References: <191@tekig5.UUCP> <324@bbncc5.UUCP> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 16 Since viruses exist as intracellular parasites, it is very tricky to treat them without killing the cells they infect -- but that's only once you have the disease. Modern Medicine is not virtually helpless against Viruses. It has one very good weapon -- Vaccines. Which is why you don't have to worry too much about: Smallpox, Measles, Rubella, Diptheria, Pertussus, Typhus, Polio, etc, etc, etc... But vaccines are only good if given before the disease is contracted. To all on the net: are all your vaccines current? How about your children's? -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"