Wait, so we're suddenly all wanting even more vaccinations? The OHSU article is vague, too, saying "one" of the causal viruses apparently may be combated in humans. What this means is Big Pharma coming in and funding things. BTW - pharma doesn't make money on vaccines.
Cancer obviously affects more people, but Parkinson's only affects 7 to 10 million worldwide, and 96% are diagnosed from age 50 on. HIV numbers are 25 million dead and 33 million currently have it. Edit: that means that 8.9million or more people who currently have HIV/AIDS or are not homosexual and do not do intravenous drugs. Edit#2: but why the fuck don't you care about people dying just because they are gay? Perhaps out of OHSU, but OHSU is shitting the bed with many of their policies, they are having a very hard time recruliting top scientists to the university. And most scientists there currently believe the quality will continue to drop over the next decade till OHSU becomes a third rate facility. The people in charge are incentivized too strongly towards making short term gains. It's quite sad. That doesn't mean there aren't great scientists now, just that the numbers are dwindling and not being replaced.
An entire continent that is already starving for food is the overwhelming death toll regarding AIDS. Who is going to pay for a vaccine when they can barely get food to live on most years?
I think biomedical research has a greater chance to improve Portland's economy vs the last mayor's agenda of bicycle lanes, streetcars to nowhere and food carts.
People may not have been around when HIV/AIDS was first encountered in the USA. Nobody knew what it was or how you got it. It appeared to be a disease that might end up killing every single human being on the planet if allowed to spread. People in the medical profession had no clue if they treated someone who had it if they too would get it. For this reason, it was super high priority over other life threatening diseases. It still kills a lot of people worldwide, but not so much in the USA. From 1987-2002, 6x more people died of breast cancer than died of AIDS. 4x more people died of prostate cancer. I miss Freddie Mercury's music.
Wow, that's fucked up. I thought OHSU had dreams of turning the So-What district into a Biomed business incubator?
I think food carts will have a greater impact, and unless Portland offers massive tax breaks, any pharma company would be crazy to set up shop on the south waterfront. Not that I don't want it to happen, but if you haven't noticed, most large employers are moving out of Multnomah County, and Portland proper, in particular, without major tax breaks.
When people say its not as important as Parkinson's because its something people bring on themselves, and by far the largest affected group are gay men, isn't that another way of saying people bring it on by being gay? Only 9% are from intravenous drug use so that can't be it.
Financially it's about equal, a company makes it (bombs or vaccine), the US buys it and uses it. Morally one is far greater than the other.
again more bullshit....it is a lifestyle issue unprotected sex is number one..look at the figures. You dont have to be gay to do that...drugs are what..ah, three? ah, no two...look at the numbers... common stop being the constant protector of all causes and try to be objective
Perhaps you did not look at it as a gay issue. Yes, this issue can be very emotional if you have known people who died from it and watched them wither away. Perhaps I misread, but I suspect my buttons were also being pushed. If MM didn't look at this as a gay issue, why not be more specific about stating that. Leaving it open sure allows speculation.
Oh, by the way condoms are only 85% effective against HIV That seems real low, I'll check another site and edit if I'm wrong. EDIT, yep, found another link to basically back it saying 87% effective. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3127299.html
I will take 87% vs zip and your buttons were pushed by you interjecting your bias upon a post MM made that was not anti gay.. dude I have lost three people to cancer this year...and I will not speak to MMs condition..welcome to real life again bullshit
or is this another of your idealistic dance among the flowers waiting for someone else to swoop in and rescue you from your failed reasoning? I try to give you credit, you work at OHSU and I will champion the work that they do there. They have been great to me..but you make it hard....
