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Doubts Over China's HIV/AIDS Estimates

...ans in China" says that many people in the country hide their status to avoid social stigma. "To me it is hard to believe [the report is] revising downward. It is certainly not what I see as a front-line, grassroots AIDS worker," it said. Odilon Couzin, an HIV/AIDS advocate, was puzzled as to how official...

Bird Flu Spreading in China's Poultry

...w members of the world community, is to in any way hide or cover up the onset of the signs of an outbreak of something that could turn into a pandemic,' Howard said. The leaders' final declaration lists preventing the spread of bird flu as a top priority along with free trade and fighting terrorism, acco...

Treating Latent Herpes With Licorice

...ding herpes, cause both active infections and also hide within the body for long periods of time, causing no immediate infection // but can strike again whenever resistance is lowered. The latent infections thus pose repeated problems for those infected. Based on findings of a recent study researchers sa...

New vaccine for brain cancer

...mor vaccine. Dr. Black says brain tumors try to hide proteins on the tumor cell surface that the immune system could use to recognize the tumor. By hiding these cells, brain tumors become difficult to eradicate. The first step of research strips these “hidden” proteins from tumor cells and then culture...

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

...d a new place in the body where the AIDS virus can hide out, even in the face of powerful drug therapies.Dr. George N. Pravlak, a senior scientist at the National Cancer Institute in Texas, //found that their findings show a type of NK (natural killer) cell a significant cell of the immune system could be...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

... a study-- HIV can mutate key proteins in order to hide from an immune attack. But once these mutations occur they persist. When HIV attacks, the cell alerts the immune system by displaying viral protein fragments on the surface. This is a suicide signal to kill the infected cell. The immune response tha...

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