Mystery Aids-Like Disease In Thailand & Taiwan Baffles Doctors

[Payboy]

Patients' immune systems became damaged by the infection, which has been most widely reported in Taiwan and Thailand.

A mysterious new disease that has Aids-like symptoms has been infecting dozens of people in Asia and the US who do not have HIV.

Researchers say the patients' immume systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do.

http://news.sky.com/...baffles-doctors

Edited August 24, 2012 by Payboy

[stevehaigh]

just saw this on cnn

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/23/health/adult-onset-immunodeficiency-syndrome/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

[Sheryl]

It would be more accurate to stay that a cluster of an unusual number of cases of noninfectious adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome has been noted than to leap to calling it a new disease...a claim not made in the source http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1111160