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Ten Incurable Diseases In The Present Time

english.pravda.ru — Modern medicine has done much to eradicate and cure disease, but it has failed in some areas.....The top ten incurable diseases...10. Ebola...9. Polio...8. Lupus...7. Influenza...6. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease....5. Diabetes...4. HIV/AIDS....3. Asthma....2. Cancer.....1. The Common Cold ...

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  • floorman56, on 11/02/2007, -2/+7Only 10?
    • Hickeroar, on 11/02/2007, -3/+31Half of them are viruses which means you CAN'T cure it....period. Your body can fight it off, but there's no "cure." The common cold, the flu, ebola, none of them are DISEASES. They're viral infections... There's no "cure" for ANY virus, only vaccines to keep you from getting them in the first place.
      • zachblume, on 11/02/2007, -0/+8Eventually the human race will do it. Give us a few decades, jeez.
      • geminitojanus, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Infectious disease is still disease. The Common Cold, for instance, is a disease, whereas the Rhinovirus that causes the Common Cold is incurable. AIDS (though called a "Syndrome", indicating a collection of factors including many secondary and tertiary diseases) is now understood to be a "syndrome" caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

        So, by rote definition, no the viruses aren't the disease. The viruses /cause/ disease. Can that disease be cured? Maybe, maybe not. It's an unanswered question in science, and something we aren't fully prepared to answer today (whether or not we can prevent a virus group from ever infecting a patient, or whether we can come up with some inhibitor that causes a virus to never cause disease (see HIV)).
      • hipnerd, on 11/02/2007, -1/+4A disease is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions.

        It's a broad concept that includes viruses.
      • glasgowm, on 11/02/2007, -3/+2There are to vaccines for polio - may not be a cure but nobody gets polio anymore..

        stupid list
        • djpants428, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Not in developed countries at least, but it is still a big problem in places like India and Africa.
      • obxjdt, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1I think when we find a cure for one virus, we'll have a cure for most of them. Like what penicillin does to bacteria.
      • SomaSynth, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1-Half of them are viruses which means you CAN'T cure it....period.-

        A virus can't be cured because it's a virus, brilliant. You should send that in to Britannica.

        My car is blue therefore it can't go fast. There's an indisputable argument for you.
    • imperium2000, on 11/02/2007, -2/+3It leaves out many other diseases that have no or limited cures at the moment.
      How about: Thalasemia, Sickle Cell and Cystic Fibrosis(Genetic diseases) or Multiple Sclerosis, Polymyalgia or Lou Gehrig's Disease?

      I guess better title would be 10 common diseases with no cures.
    • asskey, on 11/02/2007, -0/+5Where is herpes?
    • WaltDismal, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2Does this count incurable social diseases, like being a total douchebag, or actually respecting Britney Spears?
      • ArmandoM, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2Isn't one a symptom of the other?
        • kingkilr, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Touch call, most scientists believe the current taxonomy doesn't allow for such occurrences and believe they need to be reclassified.
    • etruscan, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1A top ten list for incurable diseases. Digg's fantastic.
    • changyang1230, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3As a medical student, the list seems to be a random compilation of ten "bad" diseases without any particular order in terms of ranking. It's not ranked according to the global mortality, since flu would have been way higher than no. 7, and CJD would not have made it to top ten. It's also not ranked according to the lethality (probability of death once you get the disease), as many other diseases should have been there, e.g. primary amoebic meningoencephalitis due to Naegleria fowleri - almost 100% fatal. As many others have pointed out, this list also doesn't include debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson disease, clinical depression etc.
  • petsheep, on 11/02/2007, -1/+12We could only wish there were only 10, in truth, we are still relatively in the dark about many diseases, the key does seem to be with understanding viruses, also old age thats the biggie that gets us all.
  • Happy_Phantom, on 11/02/2007, -0/+13Arthritis! When will science achieve the regeneration of cartilage? My doctor told me that the US Air Force is working on it, since their pilots are afflicted with an early onset of osteo-arthritis because of the high G-forces experienced in fighter plane maneuvers. I'm so sick of pain taking killers.
    • riceklown, on 11/02/2007, -5/+4try medicinal marijuana, you'll be much happier taking your meds :)
    • Victorioso, on 11/02/2007, -1/+1Arthritis is cured by being able to use the calcium your body needs. Just taking calcium alone will not work, but it helps. The degeneration of the ends of the bones can be prevented easily, if people would just take care of themselves.
    • obxjdt, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2Feel free to send those pain killers to me if you're sick of them ;-)
      My dad was a Navy pilot, and spent most of his time (15 years flying, 27 years total. Ret. Capt.) doing cat shots from Carriers. He's doing pretty good, but does have a few stiff joints. Never heard him say it was from g-forces though.
    • rhatid, on 11/02/2007, -0/+01. cissus
      2. fish oil
  • fluidfoundation, on 11/02/2007, -4/+61Lets not forget the greatest disease of all...... love.
    ;)
    • jesperhh, on 11/02/2007, -2/+5Corny - i like it :P
    • jjb123, on 11/02/2007, -2/+15Because you can get AIDs from it.
      • mahler, on 11/02/2007, -6/+2Nooo, if you get AIDS from love, you probably also suffer from ’stupidity'.
      • mahler, on 11/02/2007, -7/+1Nooo, if you get AIDS from love, you probably also suffer from ’stupidity'.
    • superspud, on 11/02/2007, -2/+8Everyone say 'Awww...'
    • Avocadoes, on 11/01/2007, -2/+1You are my new hero.
    • dungbeetle, on 11/02/2007, -2/+4Excuse me while I go over there and barf.
    • rz8472, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2That's the power of love!

      *cues Huey Lewis and the News*
      *cues scene from Back to the Future*
    • ivandir, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2If love is a disease, what is sex then?
      • TheDreadDiggerD, on 11/02/2007, -0/+5Sex is the act that produces a parasite that first feeds upon the female host and then allows the female host to feed upon the male contributor. The male is sucked dry of all things that make him human, leaving an empty husk behind. This process is repeated by the parasite according to its genetic disposition, with its fate being either to become a succubus like its mother or a dried out husk like its poor father.
        Of course, there are rumors of a different fate for the parasite that pertain to a website known as Digg, but reports are scarce since no parasitic samples have come back from the site's grasp.
        • floorman56, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Dude ...You need a hug
          • TheDreadDiggerD, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1No, I need to summon a lake troll. Mustakrakish, AWAKEN!
  • 1tb0y, on 11/02/2007, -2/+3I didn't notice this was Pravda before I clicked on the link. Now I have to wonder, when will those crazy russkies try to sell me their anti-gravity cure for arthritis?
  • rainydaywoman, on 11/02/2007, -1/+6Hopefully one day they'll be able to cure my asthmar.
    • Hittman6, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3And maybe they could fix that lisp too.
    • munkeyhatecleen, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Sucks to your asthmar!!
    • steech, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Sucks to your asthmar! See, I got the joke...
    • actionscripted, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1I'm glad you can read, but it just wasn't funny.
  • petsheep, on 11/02/2007, -5/+30In Russia we have succumbed to the disease of capitalism
    • VladmirPutin, on 11/02/2007, -0/+9Capitalism is the best thing to happen to Russia since me!
    • aak4, on 11/01/2007, -1/+1Tell that to the millions of people who had family members sent to Siberia.
      • BabyWookie, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2What does being sent to Siberia have to do with capitalism?
        • aak4, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1OK, I should have been clearer. Petsheep said, "In Russia we have succumbed to the disease of capitalism." Before that happened, Russia was a communist country (obviously). Since petsheep is complaining about what Russia has become, I was pointing out that it was worse before.

          In other words, before Russia had "succumbed to the disease of capitalism", how did that whole communism thing work out?
        • BabyWookie, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I think the OP was either trolling or being sarcastic. Also, Stalinist terror and cult of personality had little to do with any economic systems.
    • Scynet, on 11/02/2007, -1/+3Please tell the rest of us if you ever find a cure. I'm sick of corporate dominance here in the western countries.
      • toxicshok, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1There is a cure, its called the free market
  • Niddik, on 11/03/2007, -2/+2511. Top Ten List Syndrome
  • ncapone, on 11/02/2007, -2/+5Is it Lupus?
    • kelsosmythe, on 11/02/2007, -0/+7Dammit Otto, you're an alcoholic...

      Dammit Otto, you have Lupus.
    • spyd3rweb, on 11/02/2007, -1/+4Seinfeld reference.
      • thesonofdarwin, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Or House, since lupus seems to make its way into every episode.
  • Lax32, on 11/02/2007, -2/+22Yeah but... its never lupus.
  • CandleZach, on 11/02/2007, -5/+0But it's never lupus...
  • RxDaniel, on 11/02/2007, -6/+1It's never lupus.
  • chesscat, on 11/02/2007, -2/+1Number 11? Stupid postings on Digg.
    • jmreid, on 11/02/2007, -1/+4Number 12 - being a jerk, minus a million points—FOR YOU!
  • SpallettaAC1041, on 11/01/2007, -1/+0Allergies?
  • bsl4doc, on 11/02/2007, -8/+2The "common cold" isn't a disease. It's a condition that can be caused by one of literally thousands of viruses, bacteria, and fungi, all of which cause a specific infection presenting with cold-like symptoms, but never is it called "a cold".

    Buried for that, and because Pravda is government propaganda.
    • ereptorcinereus, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4The common cold is caused by viruses, mostly rhinoviruses. The cold is not caused by bacteria or fungi; what you may be talking about are bacterial diseases that may present "cold-like" symptoms but are not a cold, kind of like how lots of other diseases present "flu-like" symptoms and are definitely not influenza.
    • BabyWookie, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4Uh... FYI, Pravda.ru is an Internet tabloid and has nothing to do with the old Soviet daily state newspaper.
      • bsl4doc, on 11/02/2007, -4/+0false.

        /fail
        • BabyWookie, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Look it up.

          /fail
          • bsl4doc, on 11/02/2007, -1/+0Learn about Russia.

            /fail
          • BabyWookie, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1You are silly. Ok, that might not be saying much, but being from Russia and having minored in Russian history in college, qualifies me as one of the top-most experts on Russian affairs on Digg.
  • DarkDx, on 11/02/2007, -10/+511. Windows
    • Christbait, on 11/02/2007, -4/+712. iSheep, running rampant amongst teenagers and spreading their iDisease.
    • bingobongony, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Wow...you need to live a full life. The one you are living now is limited to bitchfests about computer OSes.
      • DarkDx, on 11/02/2007, -2/+1It was just a little joke, I don't go over there bashing windows/linux/etc. You can see some (3) of my posts in joejoe.org. I'm a very unbiased person.
  • Chaoticfist, on 11/02/2007, -2/+3Pretty interesting article, is it just me or have other people sorta noticed that the worst diseases we know of have all appeared within the last 50 years....I am sort of wondering what else is out there.
  • hyperlexic, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Interesting there is no mental illness on the list.
  • daybreaker, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2Life is 100% fatal
  • brianbb98, on 11/02/2007, -8/+3Bushism?
    • bingobongony, on 11/02/2007, -2/+2Seriously...tell me what a typical day is in your sorry ass life. Every time someone says something to you, do you just find ways to turn it into an anti-Bush bitchfest? It is a good thing you have no firends, because you would be HORRIBLe at parties.
      • timlopez, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I tend to agree with Brian, however. Shaved FTW.
  • flangle, on 11/01/2007, -3/+1They definitely forgot Ignorance. It's a disease and it surely seems to be incurable.
  • gbarberi, on 11/01/2007, -6/+1They forgot: stupidity. There's a plague in the government.
    • jmreid, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4THE government? Or your government? Maybe you mean the world government, The Stone Cutters.
  • Sedako, on 11/02/2007, -6/+1Cancer isn't a disease...
    • catalysis, on 11/02/2007, -0/+5When were you going to let the rest of us know? Just to think, all this time doctors and scientists thought it was a disease when it really wasn't! Amazing!
      • toxicshok, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Actually its more of a class of diseases.
  • johanm, on 11/02/2007, -3/+2wow thanks for pointing out that there is no cure for cancer.
    please come home to my house and point out more really obvious things
    • djpants428, on 11/02/2007, -1/+2You have an aversion to capitalization?
  • crapmatic, on 11/02/2007, -0/+11There's also Cat Scratch Fever, as cited in Dr. Nugent's 1977 paper.
    • munkeyhatecleen, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2Allso don't forget Foreigneritis, characterized by hot-bloodedness and a fever of 103F.
    • kabitoSDMF, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Guys, a fever is a symptom... not a disease. But I admit, people who suffer from an 'Achey Breaky Heart' should be put out of their misery.
      • phanfromcheese, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I've got a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell
  • Christbait, on 11/02/2007, -6/+1It's just a shame medicine is such a profitable and costly business, otherwise this list needn't be.
    • drinklord, on 11/02/2007, -1/+3False.
    • DarkDx, on 11/02/2007, -2/+2Yeah KILL THE FARMACY GREEDY CORPORATIONS!!!ELEVENGOGMG¡FM!!!one
      INDIE MEDICINES BY YOURSELF FTW!!!!

      /sarcasm
  • limezor2, on 11/02/2007, -1/+1311. Putting a top ten list on 5 pages.
  • Todamont, on 11/02/2007, -1/+5A lot more people die from cancer than from the common cold, maybe we should focus on that first. Cardiovascular disease and stroke didn't make it, hmmmm, number 1 and 5 causes of death not on top 10 list interesting. Also, how many people died from ebola last year? 5 maybe? It really should not be on this list... Just a medical researchers point of view though.
    • DeviantDragon, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Uh, I'm pretty sure that a stroke is an event like a heart attack and not a disease.
  • GABULLDAWG, on 11/02/2007, -3/+4My name is Lupas. I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you. I think you've heard me before...
  • aak4, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's deserve the No 1 position more than the common cold. After the movie, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", most insane asylums were shut down. Now, most of those people are homeless instead of being treated. Yes, the treatment we have for schizophrenia isn't the best, but it's better to be taken care of than to live on the street.
    • hyperlexic, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4Agree 100%. Take a walk down any street in San Francisco, and most of those homeless addicts/alcoholics are dual diagnosed. Many of the people in prison are also severely mentally ill. It's a shame in 2007 we are still so lacking in proper mental health care.
      • aak4, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2It's amazing how in the 70's, there was a liberal anti-government push to close down government run insane asylums. Now, there's a liberal push to for the government to provide more mental health services (along with completely socialized medicine).

        People who are mentally ill need very, very consistent care. It's a shame that we "rebelled against the machine", destroyed the government run psychiatric hospitals, and now are trying to get that system back up to a shadow of what it was 30 years ago.
  • mentalacuity, on 11/02/2007, -0/+5Total fear article. HIV/AIDS is only number 4? There are 2 commonly available vaccines for Polio FYI. No Malaria? Check your facts. Buried.
  • mcnab32, on 11/02/2007, -2/+5Im a strong believer that if we REALLY wanted to, we could have had a cure for many of these diseases . But you know what? There isn't MONEY to be made in curing a disease. Biomed companies, would rather make a drug which you have to DEPEND on for YEARS AND YEARS, rather than give you one time "CURE" for a disease. They make more money by NOT curing diseases, but making a drug which helps or eliminates all the symptoms, but you have to keep using in order to maintain this.

    It's the sad truth.
    • g33b33, on 11/01/2007, -0/+0as said by Chris Rock :-)
    • mcnab32, on 11/02/2007, -2/+2Chris Rock said that as well? Really....I Didn't know that! I guess great minds think alike :) hehehe
  • drinklord, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1If you're going to pick the craziest, most lethal diseases, ebola's a good one. If you're going to pick historically tragic but currently uncommon diseases, polio's good, too. But how do you get those two on the same list?
  • Veritate, on 11/02/2007, -2/+10Crappy list. There are much worse incurable diseases out there.

    Lyme Disease
    Schizophrenia
    Leprosy
    Meningitis
    Lou Gehrig's disease
    Parkinson's
    Alzheimer's
    • BabyWookie, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Actually, leprosy and bacterial meningitis are cured using antibiotics. Leprosy, in particular is easily cured these days.
    • Ellipsys, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Dug for Lyme Disease (and its coinfections). I know, be cause I have it. I've been sick for 6 years so far, diagnosed correctly and under treatment for 3.
    • schwab002, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3those are some decent additions. might as well add:
      multiple sclerosis
      malaria (which is curable sometimes, but for the most part isn't. also, it's very widespread and a huge public health problem in the afflicted areas)
    • schwab002, on 11/01/2007, -2/+2bury this ;(
    • abdul88, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2Meningitis is now curable if it's detected and treated for within hours of contracting it.
  • g33b33, on 11/02/2007, -3/+1Worst disease.....HUMANS!!
    • SilverStandard, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1If humans are a disease, what is the endgame?
  • artvandal, on 11/02/2007, -0/+5Finally! A top 10 list on Digg I can just read in the description without having to click the link.
  • alexfreedman, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1What has Digg come to that we're reading top 10 lists about disease and infection? The top 10 format is already so very pathetic when used for subjects like movies, so why use it for a serious topic? When you consider that there are so many criteria that could be used to rank diseases, how does one justify the use of this format? Asthma, although far more common, is far less impactful on a person's life than AIDS. But, for some reason, asthma is ranked higher than AIDS. This is a sad list. Anyone who believes that diseases can be ranked when no criteria is provided is a ***** moron.
  • merper, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3They forgot a little thing called Death.
  • chriskzoo, on 11/01/2007, -1/+1Polio? Jonas Salk says 'Hi'
  • Falldog, on 11/02/2007, -1/+1What about obesity? Oh god someone please think of the children!
    • derek20cali, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2Obesity itself doesn't kill, but it leads to things that can. Such as diabetes mellitus.
  • funkytaco, on 11/02/2007, -0/+6Your ugliness. You ain't got no cure and no alibi. You ugly. You ugly.
  • Victorioso, on 11/02/2007, -1/+2The primary cause of cancer was discovered in the 1930's. The cure for diabetes was on the front page of USA Today, about ten years ago.
    http://www.stanfordcenter.com/artikel/Preventionof ...
    • aak4, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1There is no cure for diabetes. What are you talking about?
  • aak4, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4Nowadays, it's fashionable to call everything a disease. Obesity, promiscuity (i.e., sexual addiction), lack of discipline (i.e., ADHD), drug addiction, even unwanted pregnancy is called a disease by extreme pro-choice groups. (I heard one call a fetus a "parasite'). It seems like every single bad thing that happens is called a disease. This way, it's never OUR fault, it's the DISEASE that did it!
  • guazarius, on 11/01/2007, -1/+0On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
  • Economist35, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1cuz the common cold is 100x worse than aids
    • floridiot2, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1You die from the cold when you have AIDS... so kinda.
  • roberto_deneero, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Microsoft Vista is currently an incurable disease.
  • obxjdt, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Interesting, I didn't know there wasn't a cure for polio. I thought it had been all but eradicated.
    • aak4, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Now that some parents decided that vaccines are evil, there's been a small resurgence of polio in the US.
  • marcosc, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1"It's never Lupus"
  • deezl, on 11/02/2007, -1/+111. Today's music.
  • mikegdc, on 11/02/2007, -1/+0Get the answer to the questions in this 4 minute Bill Maher video...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXXTCc-IVg
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