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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Biomaven who wrote (1209)1/15/2004 6:29:43 PM
From: Henry Niman  Respond to of 4232
 
The was a bit more detail in the WSJ, but studies that take 90 patients to see which HLA haploypes jump out at the two ends of the curve really need to be tested in a new set of patients. There are many haplotpes and one is always go to be the best for susceptibility and another for resistance.



To: Biomaven who wrote (1209)1/15/2004 6:31:18 PM
From: Henry Niman  Respond to of 4232
 
I did an update on the new SARS mutations based on media reports

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There seem to be data for SARS CoV cousins and well as humanization.



To: Biomaven who wrote (1209)1/16/2004 5:50:19 AM
From: Henry Niman  Respond to of 4232
 
Speaking of genes, I have put together a short review, SARS Sequence Secrets, of the civet sequences that strongly implicated them in the transmission chain and raised some issues about WHO's reluctance to go after the real source of the problem, the asymptomatic HUMANS infected with the virus

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To: Biomaven who wrote (1209)1/16/2004 12:25:23 PM
From: Henry Niman  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4232
 
Now WHO is quoted as saying it is VERY possible that the new SARS CoV strain isn't transmissible human to human

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Hope springs eternal!