A new coronavirus isolated from humans
…are mice, ferrets, and perhaps monkeys. Proof that the new coronavirus is an agent of respiratory disease would come from its isolation from additional patients with the disease. An outbreak…
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Trial By Error: A Q-and-A with Leonard Jason, on Case Definition
…socioeconomic groups, and thus we helped shatter the myth that CFS was a Yuppie Flu disease. What did William Reeves [then-head of the CDC division in charge of the illness]…
Trial By Error: My Letter to the Science Media Centre about BMJ Study
By David Tuller, DrPH I have sent the following e-mail to Edward Sykes, the head of mental health and neuroscience at the Science Media Centre. The e-mail concerns the Lightning…
A case of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
…disease. What does this mean? CJD is one of several neurological diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). These diseases are characterized by progressive mental and physical degeneration, and by…
Raltegravir inhibits murine leukemia virus: implications for chronic fatigue syndrome?
…into the murine genome. When mice with autoimmune disease were treated with raltegravir, they succumbed to autoimmune disease a month earlier than untreated animals. Mice without the disease were not…
When Viruses Collide with Parasitic Worms
…is involved in enhanced WNV disease, wild type mice were administered succinate and were then infected with WNV. All these mice developed enhanced disease, even in the absence of Hpb…