Well, there's always the potential for complications. But by and large it is pretty easy. It's amazing what medicine can do.

We have a vaccine against tuberculosis that's gaining acceptance now, too. It's a live virus and doesn't protect against all strains of the bacteria, but it saved a lot of lives in Europe after the war. Maybe someday we'll be able to prevent most people from getting infected in the first place.

[And hmm, he should ask Adele about that. It'd be interesting if the disease was practically eradicated by 2011.]