The News:
Find may help fight hantavirus A UNC researcher says certain cells protect mice. But treatment may cause cancer, a doctor says.
By Allison Sherry Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/18/2007 01:00:00 AM MDT
A University of Northern Colorado researcher said Monday that his studies of deer mice infected by the hantavirus could lead to a treatment for humans who come down with the serious respiratory disease. A leading doctor and cancer researcher at National Jewish Medical and Research Center said, however, that the potential treatment, published in an online edition of a medical journal, could cause cancer. The idea is a "disaster," said Dr. Yosef Refaeli, a National Jewish immunologist and cancer researcher. UNC immunologist Tony Schountz has been studying hantavirus - a lung disease carried by rodents and passed along to humans through saliva, droppings or urine - since 1998, after a woman in Meeker survived the disease. Schountz looked at why deer mice, the primary carriers of the virus, never get sick or die from it.
The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the journal BMC Immunology.
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