alt Hacker NewsYou're right that there is far more to it than Alzheimers. Still, Quadmaster has half a point. It's probably not consumption (tuberculosis), or hookworm. It's much less likely than it was to be black lung. Even smoking is decreasing, though it will take another generation for that to show up in the old people.
So we're making progress. But we don't see it, because that becomes the new normal, and we see all these remaining things that cause problems for old people.
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close04 • last Wednesday at 1:44 PM
TB killed 1.25 million in 2023 and the WHO considers it the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, outpaced only temporarily by COVID.
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> Still, Quadmaster has half a point. It's probably not consumption (tuberculosis), or hookworm. It's much less likely than it was to be black lung.
But that's not because we got better at treating hookworm or black lung. The big ideas there are "wear shoes" and "don't work as a miner". You don't have to treat a problem you never have.
(Wikipedia: "There is no cure or discovered treatments for pneumoconiosis.")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPZwRF7yRAQ