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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Viral infections:  Modern medicine seems virtually helpless! (???)
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:07:57 EDT
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	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
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"