Other Human Disease -- Australia
The Australian Indigenous population is being hit by HTLV-1, the most lethal human-immune virus known thus far, with "no current cure, no treatment, and no coordinated public-health response," according to a report in The Guardian.
An acronym for human T-lymphotropic virus type 1, HTLV-1 is related to other diseases like T-cell lymphoma. The disease is transmitted similarly to other human immune retroviruses: through sexual contact, blood transfusion, and via breastfeeding. In some cases,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5774453&promed&0
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