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...reason Dr. David Ho has come to China. The New York City--based virologist was named TIME's 1996 Person of the Year for his pioneering work on the drug therapies that have largely quelled the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and Europe. Now Ho is confronting the AIDS virus in its most populous stronghold. Up to 1 million Chinese are HIV positive, and that number could easily grow to 10 million by 2010, according to the Joint U.N. Program on AIDS. If current trends continue for another decade or so, China could overtake Africa, where 29 million people have...
...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...
...folk bohemian of the late '90s, got seven Grammy nominations for her major-label debut, then inexplicably decided to go disco. Search parties have all but given up hope of finding her. Second-album syndrome usually works quickly, but it can also behave like a slow, dignity-robbing virus. Britney Spears had a choice when putting together her second album--establish a pattern of artistic evolution or repeat the formula of her initial titillating success. She called that second album Oops! ... I Did It Again, and she now clings to relevance by an ever loosening bra strap...
...hunting, went to school healthy on Friday, Nov. 21. Three days later, the 8-year-old son of Scott and Carrieann Williams died of respiratory failure at Poudre Valley Hospital in nearby Fort Collins. The cause of his sudden death: infection by the Type A strain of the influenza virus. Joseph is one of four Colorado children who have died in a flu outbreak that has hit the nation's Western states unusually hard and unusually early--raising concerns among some health officials that this flu season could be one of the worst in recent years...
Alarmed Colorado parents rushed to get their kids vaccinated last week--which is a good idea. This year's vaccine was not designed to neutralize a virulent version of the Type A virus--the Fujian strain--that has surfaced in the West. But Dr. Niranjan Bhat, a flu expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says it will still provide some protection from the substrain and is still recommended for those over 50. And it's not too late to get a shot...