Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Lead them to their death

NYT article by CARL ZIMMER on March 27, 2007 screams : “Scientists Explore Ways to Lure Viruses to Their Death”.

It says : ” There are only a few basic ways to fight viruses. A vaccine can prime the immune system to attack them as soon as they invade the body. If a virus manages to establish itself, a doctor may be able to prescribe a drug to slow down its spread. And if all else fails, a doctor may quarantine a patient to head off an epidemic.
Now some scientists are exploring a fundamentally different strategy to fight viruses. They want to wipe them out by luring them to their destruction, like mice to mousetraps.”

Next what? Chattering viruses?


Artist: Helen E. Hokinson The New Yorker 2 Aug 1941

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