In the battle against the diseases that trouble us the most, whether because they’re so common, so deadly, or both, scientists will try almost anything. No matter how it happens, a disease cured is a disease cured, and someone lives to tell their strange tale. Here are ten of those tales, some of the most surprising ways in which a disease has been cured. The virus was modified to target the cancer cells and 1. attract the body’s immune cells to the cancer cells, and 2. kill the cancer cells directly. But for the same reason it frightened scientists, SARS disappeared quickly and relatively easily; it was just too deadly.

Source: The Nation August 11, 2021 08:03 UTC