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...team began its research in July last year and isolated eight antibodies; in August, one antibody proved to be an effective viral inhibitor...
...could be a highly contagious flu bug with a mortality rate of one in three. The likelihood of such a shape shift is hard to quantify, but it is believed that previous pandemics, in 1918 and in 1968, were the result of this sort of gene swapping among different viral strains...
...they are the lucky ones. Along with 68 other patients, they are part of a treatment program that Ho established in Kunming. There they will get the latest antiretroviral medications and the same careful monitoring that AIDS patients in the U.S. receive, including regular measurements of their viral loads and their immune-cell counts and tests to determine how quickly the virus is mutating to resist the drugs...
...past two years, Ho has retreated from his vaccine agenda and set up the pilot drug-treatment program in Kunming. Using funding from both ADARC and private donors, he has also built a clinic, set up a virology lab capable of performing basic viral-load tests and put together a state-of-the-art immunology lab--all of which will eventually absorb the testing required for the future vaccine studies...
...Type 1 disease has a strong genetic predisposition, but that alone doesn't explain why people get it. Researchers believe that an environmental trigger is also necessary. Among the prime suspects are viral infections like the Coxsackie B virus. The theory is that the immune system gets fired up to ward off a viral infection, then turns its attention to pancreatic islet cells because a protein on the cell surface is chemically similar to the virus...