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Symptom of Respiratory Illness Infecting Midwest Children is Asthma Attacks – CBS Local


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Symptom of Respiratory Illness Infecting Midwest Children is Asthma Attacks
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“Since the second week of August, we were seeing children admitted to the hospital with asthma attacks,” says Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the hospital's head of infectious diseases. “What was unusual is a third had no prior history of asthma, and these were …
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NIH-Led Scientists Find Antibodies that Prevent Most HIV Strains from Infecting Human Cells

Scientists have discovered two potent human antibodies that can stop more than 90 percent of known global HIV strains from infecting human cells in the laboratory, and have demonstrated how one of these disease-fighting proteins accomplishes this feat. According to the scientists, these antibodies could be used to design improved HIV vaccines, or could be further developed to prevent or treat HIV infection. Moreover, the method used to find these antibodies could be applied to isolate therapeutic antibodies for other infectious diseases as well.

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