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Science > Prophecies-Of-Nostradamus |
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"mukyuk" |
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16 May 2007 06:54:14 PM |
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Herpes has an upside - Virus shown to protect against bubonic plague, other dangerous germs |
The herpes family of viruses can have a surprising upside - it can protect
against the bubonic plague and other bacterial contagions, at least in mice.
Research into whether a similar mechanism applies to humans and other
mammalian hosts should be conducted, said viral immunologist Skip Virgin at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "There may be
symbiotic advantages to chronic infections with these viruses."
These new results do not mean people should go out and get infected with
herpes, Virgin stressed. They probably already are. Nearly all humans become
infected with multiple herpes virus family members during childhood. These
germs not only include the herpes simplex viruses, which lead to cold sores
and possibly genital herpes, but also the diseases responsible for
chickenpox and "mono," as well as several less well-known ailments. Herpes
infections have bedeviled animals for more than 100 million years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18705326/
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