Medical science and frequent change in disease pattern.

India
July 7, 2011 10:03am CST
Medical science is developing day by day and the disease pattern is also changing day by day. As long as medical science can cope with the change in disease pattern, man is the winner against that disease; otherwise, man will be a loser in the battle against that particular disease. Do you agree with me?
6 responses
@peavey (16936)
• United States
7 Jul 11
I agree to some extent. I believe that the human body has an innate capability to heal itself from a lot of things and that sometimes medical science interferes with that. The body is able to change, learn and respond faster than science can at times, too.
• India
7 Jul 11
I too agree with you because when there was no medical science, man could survive and that was possible only for the inherent defence mechanism gifted by nature.
14 Jul 11
By "man could survive" you mean a very small proportion of babies born could survive, and live a quarter to a third as long as we will expect to..
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
11 Jul 11
You are completely right on this one. The bacteria and viruses that attack the human body are constantly evolving. In most cases these evolutions are to become immune to antibiotics and vaccines. However, man, in the form of the pharmaceutical industry is constantly trying to make the medications that people are receiving better so that they are able to beat these diseases before they get ahead of the people.
@leeloo (1492)
• Portugal
7 Jul 11
There seems to be a race against time of who will win each battle humans or illness. Humans have won many battles, that against smallpox, polio, influenza and so many others. The thing is viruses and bacteria keep fighting back and adapting/mutating becoming more resistant. That is the rule of nature. Each age brings another enemy, the newest illnesses like the bird flu or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease(Mad cow disease) jump species, that is even scarier because there are many illnesses that traditionally had never jumped species and that would require a whole new set of treatments. The thing is as long as humans stay a step or two ahead of disease it is still winning the battle.
@celticeagle (167071)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Jul 11
I do tend to agree. Just like technology, we have to keep up. The components that make up a disease are forever strengthening themselves and finding new ways to introduce itself to the body. Bugs! Little microscopic bugs. Chemicals to kill them just like those in our back yard.
@jak2010 (1550)
• Papua New Guinea
8 Jul 11
Yes, I agree, medical science tries to research and meet the health needs of modern world. Movement of people and use of chemicals in production of food, body decoration and manufacturing adds more new disease to list for medical science to research and develop medicines and vaccins.
@sanjay91422 (2725)
• India
7 Jul 11
I agree with you friend, there were so many disease which we have the cure for now. There are only few deadly disease which I think have no cure. AIDS is one of them, if human get the victory over this disease then I am sure there are no more deadly disease left.