One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.

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In some Indian patients, TB is now all but incurable.

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Poverty is amorphous and sounds incurable, but needs are specific: food, water, shelter, medical care and education.

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Resistance to streptomycin is spreading, but while that might make some cases incurable, the economic and social conditions for TB to spread no longer exist.

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The initial euphoria around the bacteriophage as a means of combating what had been incurable conditions subsided and the virus was all but forgotten.

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