AIDS: nature's last laugh?
Kaul, S.
Health for the Millions 24(5): 8-10
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0970-8685 PMID: 12348881 Document Number: 280116
HIV has already shown that it can control population more effectively than any other discovery or invention over the past 2 centuries. Condom use can both block the transmission of HIV and prevent pregnancy, while the fear of contracting HIV will drive people to become more monogamous in their sexual relations. Early successes with antibiotics and vaccines led us to believe that humans could defy nature, and we continue to challenge the forces of nature, routinely choosing diseases to eradicate. AIDS, however, should teach humankind that every time it eradicates one disease, nature delivers 2 new ones. Unless humankind realizes and accepts its fallibility, it will be doomed. Mankind should try to increase individual immunity to pathogens, coexist with microscopic pathogens, and believe in the wisdom of our ancestors.