A recent report from Reuter’s brings hope to the nearly 40 million people currently infected with the AIDS virus worldwide.

An AIDS virus genetically engineered to fight other AIDS viruses worked better than expected, suppressing the virus and renewing the immune systems of a few patients…

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Who would have guessed? It turns out that the reason that Strep throat is so painful and serious is that a highly virulent strain of group A strep secretes the SlaA protein, a pathogen enzyme called secreted phospholipase A2, which is related to a potent snake venom toxin.

SlaA kills human cells and helps the strep germ to spread throughout the body.
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