• Question: Are there any diseases that are completely uncurable?

    Asked by sarahsiddique to Katy on 21 Jun 2013.
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      Katy Brown answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      There are lots of diseases which can’t be cured at the moment – HIV, lots of types of cancer, even minor diseases like colds and flu. I don’t know if there are diseases which could never be cured. If there are, I think they will be diseases which act very quickly, like the ebola virus, which suddenly causes very severe symptoms – it would be hard to make a treatment act quickly enough to avoid any permanent damage.

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