Tuesday, May 13, 2003|
Pfizer Compound May Find SARS Drug. A laboratory study in Germany suggests that a drug now being tested for treating the common cold could be modified to treat SARS, a respiratory virus that has killed at least 577 people worldwide, and which has no known treatment. The compound, known only by its laboratory name AG7088, is not likely to itself be a treatment for severe acute respiratory syndrome, said Rolf Hilgenfeld of the University of Luebeck in Germany, who led the study. [Source: BioSpace] 10:11:19 AM 
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Report: Form Of HIV Reached Humans By 1940
One form of the virus that causes AIDS made the jump from animals to people by 1940, a new analysis indicates. HIV-2 didn't become widespread until the 1960s, perhaps spread during a war in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, where researchers say it originated. 9:57:54 AM
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