NEW YORK - A major new study has cast doubts on the possibility that a virus known as HTLV may be a cause of AIDS, a frustrating development for scientists who felt the elusive virus was the best lead they had found so far in their search for the cause. The new research, by Lawrence Falk of the New England Primate Cent
Widespread speculation that AIDS is caused by a rare virus that attacks blood cells is probably wrong and could reduce attention to other possible culprits, a researcher contends. Several studies recently have suggested that a germ called the human T-cell leukemia virus, or HTLV, wrecks the body s defenses against the
Medical scientists are calling it America s deadliest epidemic. It is as incurable as lung cancer, as contagious as hepatitis, and so devastating that sufferers live out their lives plagued by merciless infections and a rare type of skin cancer. But scientists are mounting a massive counterattack against Acquired Immun
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