Damming and damning hemorrhagic diseases
Monday, May 11, 2015 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
Rift Valley fever virus' proteins imitate human DNA repair factors, say scientists. Using drugs to dam this chemical reaction would condemn the disease's infectiousness, they note, explaining that the genomes of many hemorrhagic fever viruses mutate rapidly, enabling them to quickly adapt to potential drug treatments and evade the immune system.