The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was announced today. It was given to the discoverer of the human papilloma virus and the discoverers of HIV. Recently a vaccine was developed for HPV that, if we could get past the ignorance of people, could wipe HPV from off the face of the earth. I've said before that I'm a hard-core libertarian in all things but this: if there is a vaccine that could eliminate a virus and thus a human disease from the earth, everyone has to get vaccinated. You simply don't get to choose to knowingly spread a virus and endanger people's lives that way.
Of course, the good news is that a vaccine was developed for HPV recently. Let us pray that an HIV vaccine or cure is not too far behind. Unfortunately, HIV is such a different virus.
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