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  • Mystery Illness Traced to Ritual Primarily Practiced by Certain Muslims

    03/15/2019 10:13:35 AM PDT · by Perseverando · 19 replies
    The Western Journal ^ | March 13, 2019 | AP Respots
    <p>Add self-flagellation to the list of ways to get a dangerous viral blood infection.</p> <p>Researchers said Wednesday they were initially puzzled how 10 British Muslim men had become infected with a little-known virus because the men hadn’t taken risks usually associated with the disease.</p>
  • ...A Virus Called HTLV-1 From 1500-Year-Old Mummies Infected 40 Percent of Adults In Rural Australia

    05/07/2018 12:07:57 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 46 replies
    techtimes.com ^ | 7 May 2018, 2:11 pm EDT | Steven Lerner
    An ancient virus that is a cousin of HIV is infecting a large portion of indigenous people in Australia, and doctors are unsure how it got to be so prevalent. HTLV-1, or Human T-lymphotropic virus 1, is a human retrovirus that can cause harmful diseases such as bronchitis, leukemia, and lymphoma. Researchers have found traces of the virus in 1500-year-old Andean mummies. A recent preliminary study from the Baker Institute for Heart and Diabetes in Alice Springs found that 40 percent of adults living in a remote region in Australia are infected with HTLV-1. Less than 14 percent of the...