Will your work affect us in the nearer future like stopping a disease or will it get us a better understanding of the

Question: Will your work affect us in the nearer future like stopping a disease or will it get us a better understanding of the world around us like the environment??????????????????????????
- Keywords:
  disease,
  environment,
  future,
  how science works,
  society
Asked by gooseberry007 to Laura, Nicola, Norman, Sandra, Thanasis on 12 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by 10darcyc, delilahbeatrice, 10darcya.
- Nicola Wardrop answered on 12 Mar 2013:
  
  Yeah, it should do both! It should give us more understanding of how different types of environment can change the risk of diseases spreading from cows to people. It should also help to improve disease control methods in the affected countries, so it might help to stop the diseases over there. I think it is important to work on things that you know can have a real impact somewhere…otherwise it would be difficult to stay motivated!
- Laura Soul answered on 12 Mar 2013:
  
  Well, it’s quite unlikely to stop a disease I think, but definitely the second one! That’s the thing I hope the most that it will do. My experiments are designed to help us understand how animals have responded to changes in the planet over the whole of the history of life, that way we can know how animals are likely to respond to changes in the environment that are happening now!
- Sandra Phinbow answered on 12 Mar 2013:
  
  Yeah I think so. Young girls are being vaccinated against high risk HPV, and this should prevent them from being infected with that virus in the future, and it is well known and understand that high risk HPV is associated with the development of cervical cancer.
  
  We currently test for the presence of high risk HPV after we have diagnosed abnormal cells on the slides, the sample can be tested, and based on the results we can either refer the patient for further treatment or she can be placed back into the normal recall programme and have another smear in 3-5 years.
  
  The vaccine will make a difference to the screening programme, but it wont be seen for a number of years yet.

Question: Will your work affect us in the nearer future like stopping a disease or will it get us a better understanding of the world around us like the environment??????????????????????????

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