Identify AIDS-like disease

Researchers of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , they identified a mysterious disease which causes the same symptoms in the immune system that he AIDS .

In this case, the immune system of patients is damaged so that they can not defend themselves germs Y bacteria as would a person in good health. The cause of the disease It is still unknown, but apparently it is not contagious.

Specialist suggest that it is a kind of acquired immunodeficiency that is not inherited and only occurs in adults, but does not go viral as in the case of AIDS .

According to the magazine New England Journal of Medicine cases have been detected since 2004 in Asia Y U.S .

According to the study, it is likely that infection be the detonator of the disease , although it is a condition that does not spread from person to person. This new pathology develops on average of 50 years, but it is not yet defined as the only risk group.

The specialists continue in investigations to determine the degree of danger of this disease and the possible measures that must be taken to eradicate it or, failing that, to avoid contagion.


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