Do you think our government has created any  diseases ?
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im not sure .. but if you look into aids you come up with some interesting things that seem to be supported by some pretty convincing evidence ... in a nutshell they say aids was started through vaccines in africa and select groups of people in the US.
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You are so hot AND you think about this stuff.\nAnything is possible.\nThe whole country changed from the actions of a handful of people.\nHave you seen some of the quarantine plans to deal with Bird Flu?\nThere are theories that the very top of the power pyramid want population control.\nThat really means a reduction in world population by 80%\nNever allow implanted tracking chips.\nOh sure in 50 years (or less) it may be called money.
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they have. it's partly our own fault. quite a bit of these countries we've helped, we put their officials into government and they turned around and went after us. but our presidents have a funny way of helping people out which isn't always advantageous to everyone. maybe we shouldn't get into everyone else's business.
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Wow some of these answers are scaring me.\n\nAIDS is caused by a VIRUS - HIV - not by people.  \n\nWhoever it was that said its been around for a long time had it right - and we won't ever know for sure how and when it started.\n\nYes, it was first identified as a "gay man's disease," but obviously, or I thought obviously, we had moved beyond that.  \n\nAnd if its "punishment," then how do you explain babies becoming infected, and the people that were infected early on from blood transfusions, etc?\n\nCome on people.  Get logical here.\n\nViruses aren't punishments.  Viruses and bacteria don't take personal inventories of those they infect.  They just biologically do their thing, and that is to make people sick.  \n\nHIV isn't a punishment anymore than the common cold or the flu is.
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No.  It's total fearmongering, just like the governments all over the world did with 9/11, and Anthrax in the mail etc...\n\nA virus cannot try to mutate.  It just does it.  Flu season for this year is almost over, and who knows what will happen in time for next flu season?
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Actually, I've heard the virus was inteentionally released in the first place and there has always been a cure.\n\nCould be just another wild conspiracy theory of course, but who knows?
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We definitely need screening for disease.  Resistant TB is now here, we had eradicated it in this country, and legal immigrants are screened.  Ditto polio, and to at least one account, leprosy.\n\nI'm going to include a link to something I got off of a question today.  The rhetoric is strong, but the citations and links are there to the important stuff, so I still think it has value.  It discusses health issues in illegal immigration.\n\nhttp://www.newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeleine3.htm
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I am in the health care field and I would like to tell you that this is ridiculous.  The media is going around scaring people again.  The bird flu has less then a 3 percent chance of ever mutating into a human virus.  It may come here and be something like the west nile virus, killing a few elderly and young.  This reminds me of SARS again, a virus being overblown when in actuality it is almost harmless.  Wake up people and learn things for yourself instead of listening to whatever the tv says.
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Our Golden Door is propped open thanks to advocacy and legal aid of Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Foundation, National Immigration Law Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, and similar open border groups  America is fast becoming Hospital to the World. \n\nHorrendous diseases that long ago America had conquered are resurging. Horrific diseases common in Third World poverty and medical ignorance suddenly are appearing in American emergency rooms and medical offices. Along with the visible invasion of Illegal Aliens across our borders is an invisible invasion of deadly diseases. \n\nMany illegals who skulk across our borders have tuberculosis (TB). That disease had disappeared from America thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful modern drugs such as Isoniazid and Rifampin.  TB’s swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60% of those infected. The culprit is the new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to MexicoThe mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major TB drugs. Ordinary TB usually is cured in six months with four drugs (that cost about $2000). MDR-TB takes 24 months with many expensive drugs with toxic side effects (that cost around $250,000). Each Illegal Alien with MDR-TB coughs and infects numerous people who will not show symptoms immediately. Latent disease explodes later, like a time bomb. \n\nTB was virtually absent in Virginia until in 2002 it spiked a 17% increase, but Prince William County, not far from Washington, D.C., had a meteoric rise of 188%. Public health officials blamed immigrants. Indiana School of Medicine in 2001 studied an outbreak of MDR-TB traced to illegal aliens from Mexico. \n\nThe Queens, New York, health department attributed 81% of new TB cases in 2001 to immigrants. The Centers for Disease Control ascribed 42% of all new TB cases to “foreign born” people who have up to eight times higher incidence. Apparently 66% of all TB cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. \n\nVirulent TB outbreaks afflicted schoolteachers and children in Michigan, and adults and kids in Texas. The teachers and kids caught it at school from coughing children of Illegal Aliens. In Minnesota, policemen suddenly came down with MDR-TB. The cops caught it in their patrol cars when they arrested Illegal Aliens who coughed in their faces. Recently TB erupted in Portland, Maine, and Del Ray Beach, Florida. \n\nChagas Disease has no known cure. Chagas has the revolting nickname of kissing bug disease. The Reduviid bug has parasites that favor the lips and face for infection. That noxious Trypanosoma-Cruzi protozoan annually infects 18 million people in Latin America and causes 50,000 deaths. This seditious disease also infiltrates America’s blood supply. Chagas affects blood transfusions and transplanted organs. Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected. After 10 to 20 years, up to 30% will die when their hearts or intestines, enlarged and weakened by Chagas Disease, burst. Two people died of the three people in 2001 who received Chagas-infected organ transplants. \n\nLeprosy, a scourge in Biblical days and in medieval Europe, so horribly destroys flesh, faces, and fingers it was called Disease of the Soul. Lepers quarantined in leprosaria sounded noisemakers when they ventured out to warn people to stay far away. Leprosy or Hansen’s Disease was so rare in America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy. Leprosy now is endemic to northeastern states. There are leprosy clinics in New York City. Illegal Aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Mexico. \n\nDengue Fever is exceptionally rare in America though common in Ecuador, Peru, Viet Nam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Mexico. Recently there was a virulent outbreak of Dengue Fever on the Webb County, Texas, bor
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History books don't go back that far!\nThe disease evolved alongside humans.
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YES.  diseases are becoming bigger and badder as we get older.  even if you were imunized as a child, a different strand could be out there and you could get it.  sad but true.  same with chicken pox.
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i'm almost positive no one has.  but medicine has made amazing advances in the past years and people are now starting to live into their 40's and 50's.  so someday, it may be possible, but i'm pretty sure it hasn't happened yet, especially since someone who'd be old enough to have lived that long, would have been born with the disease when you ALWAYS died of it before you turned 20.
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yes it has...\n"...weak, unhealthy and disease prone."\n\n  All of these are the legacy of our life styles and trends towards lethargy.\n\n  We are weaker as individuals despite our knowledge of nutrition.  We also learned that fat tastes good.  Pleasure before function.  We eat more and more fat and gain weight as a world...North America seems to be leading the world in weight gain.  We know that excersize and an active lifestyle is condusive to strength so we spend more time on-line.  We don't even have the desire to get up and watch t.v. anymore...hail the active couch potato!\n\nUnhealthy and disease prone.  Our tendency is towards weaker and weaker immune systems.  Unfortunately, when you circumvent natural selection, you weaken the species--humans are weaker because of the "wonders of modern medicine."  We have anti-biotics to fight diseases for us and then procreate making future generations a step weaker than the previous.  If current trends continue--which they will--humans will one day have no immunity to anything without external help.  We will be like scuba divers depending entirely on our technology to survive in our own environment.\n\nAs man devolves he weakens to the point of extinction.  Our attitudes feed this de-evolution making us weaker by the generation.  We're on a roll folks.\n\nMany of us have a distinct distaste for genetic diversity, a concept that could temporarily stave off this devolvement.  What a waste!\n\nMost of us hate letting a disease "take its course" to strengthen the carrier.  To do so builds immunities in the individual!  To pass along the inability-to-build-immunities cripples the gene-pool but this exact debilitation is encouraged by medical technology.  It's hard to say against the moral masses that modern immunology is crippling the future of the human race.  In order to gain a short-term goal goal of relative temporary health, our future generations will suffer for eternity.
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the doctor was partially right, for some viruses. many diseases we get from mutations in bacteria or viruses, from animals, from food, from a new environment we aren't used to, etc.\n\np.s. Any expert can tell you exactly how to contract the bubonic plague (often called the black death, the black plague, the plague, etc.) that wiped out 1/4 of Europe in its time. People got it from fleas. It is often associated with rats because rats carry fleas, and therefore the plague. When the flea bit an infected person, and then someone else the other person got infected, as did anything else the flea bit. And with the poor sanitation a few hundred years ago, and their total lack of knowledge as to what caused it, it is no wonder the plague wiped out entire towns.
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Possible conspiracies aside, I doubt it. Cures for deadly disease would bring in lots and lots of money for corporations and indirectly for the government. Very few people would want to hide a cure, whether for the good of the world or for profit.
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No. Do you know how many fake illnesses there are, not including the real ones. Can you say bankrupt company & unemployeed people.
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The rumor is NOT true. \n\nCheck out this answer I gave a while back. I explain the process by which a disease (inlcuding most STDs) gets reported to the health department.\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006033031802&pa=FZB6NXXtFWMW0cLWwuwe8o4KB7a8jKXpIf06CLL.4rrbv6gEUpc-&paid=add_watch\n\nPeople don't realize that most public health stuff is handled at a LOCAL level. The national government has little hand in our day to day operations. The only times I have had to really work with the CDC was during very wide multi-jurisdictional outbreaks. Even then, we did most of the work, and CDC just gives us money and coordination between departments.\n\nCongressmen are idiots and often make horribly uninformed big policy decisions about health. But that's besides the point.\n\nThe point is, Congress doesn't need to put together a database of people with STDs. For one thing, it'd be a big database, but what use is that info.\n\nThink of WHY you'd need a database of STD patients?\n\nWE, your local health department, need databases to keep track of how many cases, to help us manage and treat patients. We want to know who's getting sick and why. If there's a spike in a particular disease, we look at demographics and risk factors to determine where we should direct our disease control efforts. \n\nYes, local health departments have databases, but that information is strictly guarded. We are bound by HIPAA rules not to divulge that info to unauthorized parties. My office has code-locks on the doors. We are NOT allowed to take files home.