Why can medical science cure the rheumatic diseases which have been around for years and affect so many people?
Not smart enough, not enough funding, hard to work with people since they are outbred and thus unpredictable, we already do a pretty good job treating them, they are very complex, progress is being made, stay tuned. Q: Why doesn’t the immune system eliminate constant, low grade infections in the body, for example staph in the skin or subclinical gum infections? These infections always seem “active” when present rather than going into some “latent” stage. A: Bugs are very clever at exploiting design weaknesses in the human body. For example, the gingival crevice, between tooth and gum, is neither inside nor outside the body; it is not washed by antibacterial saliva, but T cells can’t get there, either. So bugs find it just the right niche; warm, wet, full of nutrients, but low on defenses. They settle down and you have periodontal disease. The skin also has issues; it has to support more bacteria than there are people in the world, because they are good for it; so bad bugs exploit this
