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What disease would you cure?

If given full liberties in expenses with the premise that one disease will be cured, which disease would you choose?

MyLiege 7 Jan 12
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It's one of those questions that doesn't work without context because it would depend on how broadly diseases were defined. Is cancer a single disease or a single type? If the latter, would that be by location (breast, lung etc) or histology (adenocarconoma, squamous cell carcinoma)? Is addiction a single disease, or just alcohol or heroin addiction?

So I like skado's answer - "aging" covers the majority of serious diseases as many are wholly or largely occurring in older people (especialy cancers).

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Obesity

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Psychopathy. The trickle done effect would be huge. We could do an awful lot about the rest if we did not have psychopaths in positions of power and influence.

Kimba Level 7 Jan 12, 2018
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Aging.

skado Level 9 Jan 12, 2018
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I would cure by prevention most diseases by replacing polluters technology with green jobs

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Cancer and AIDS are obvious choices (especially for cancer- how many subtypes of cancer are there. For selfish reasons, i'd add Type 1 Diabetes.

@SaintChris I concur.

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Ignorance.

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Malaria: We've been trying to cure it for the past hundred years with only short-lived luck. And it still kills nearly half a million annually.

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Diabetes

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