[oh8eleven]

More great news for mice everywhere ...
Excellent point.
I've often wondered why, after the relatively "quick" success over polio 50 year ago, more hasn't been accomplished to cure and/or eradicate so many other diseases?
The only other one I can think of is smallpox.

[PapaBear3625]

I've often wondered why, after the relatively "quick" success over polio 50 year ago, more hasn't been accomplished to cure and/or eradicate so many other diseases?

There seems to be lots of stuff that works on mice but not on humans.

If there is a requirement that something work on mice before being tested on humans, then we will only see cures that work on mice and humans, and will not see anything that works on humans but not on mice.

[exDemMom]

I've often wondered why, after the relatively "quick" success over polio 50 year ago, more hasn't been accomplished to cure and/or eradicate so many other diseases?

That's because the etiology of most diseases is a bit more complicated than an infectious agent. Even most infectious diseases are more complicated than polio or smallpox. It takes a lot of research to understand the cause of these diseases, and then a lot more to figure out a good way to treat the diseases.