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Re:First gene-edited babies claimed in China by wiz21c on Monday November 26, 2018 @05:43AM (#18532401)
well, then it means one understands "treatable" as "there's a treatmen for", it's different thatn "there's a cure for"...
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Re:First gene-edited babies claimed in China by dfxm12 on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:51AM (#18533689)
According to the OED[0], "treatable" is a boolean that means "able to be cured". "Very" is superfluous here - something is able to be cured or not, I'm not sure what room there is for degree. As far as I know, there is no cure for HIV (but I'd be happy to learn otherwise).

So unless "very treatable" is medical jargon with a different meaning from the how the laity use it, calling HIV "very treatable" does seem to be a stretch.

0 - https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/treatable

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Re:First gene-edited babies claimed in China by dajohnson89 on Monday November 26, 2018 @10:13AM (#18533821)
In the medical world, treatable is very different from curable.

Chlamydia is a curable bacteria infection (antibiotics). There is no known cure for HIV.

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