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HalHandyman
Finns det något virus man lyckats utrota förutom smittkoppor?
Nej, I alla fall inte enligt denna länk från 2016:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37433012
The only infectious disease of humans to have been declared eradicated by the World Heath Assembly is smallpox, the last known case having occurred in Somalia in 1977, though the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aims to rid the world of polio and malaria. This week Microsoft also said it would "solve" cancer within 10 years by cracking the code of cells.
But while the International Taskforce for Disease Eradication has a seven diseases - including measles, mumps and rubella - on its hit list, it considers a further seven - including amebiasis (or amoebiasis) and buruli ulcer - to be ineradicable.
Prof Louis Niessen, health economist at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is also sceptical that disease can be eliminated altogether.
"It's the old saying," he says. "You have to die of something."
Tydligen har Facebooks grundare tänkt bota eller behandla alla sjukdomar innan århundradets slut!
Pledging $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over the next decade, Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan said their ultimate goal was to "cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century".
Vi får se hur det går. Eller rättare, det får vi inte alls. Få av oss kommer att leva till 2100
