Space plays havoc with your immune system
...h EBV is normally harmless, it can cause glandular fever and hasbeen associated with Burkitt's lymphoma, a type of cancer common in Africa.Mehta fears that other, more dangerous viruses could also be transmitted moreeasily by stressed astronauts. In preliminary analyses, he has already foundelevated levels...Experts Meet In Canada To Discuss Vaccine Progress
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...ed a total of 28.7days of respiratory illness with fever per 100 subjects, compared with 40.6 daysper 100 c...eported more total days of respiratory illness and fever than days absent fromwork, suggesting they sometimes report for duty even with fever and respiratory......d by the patient's own assessment as an absence of fever and a score of'none' or 'mild' for headache, cough, sore throat and myalgia. Zanamivirreduced the severity of all these symptoms and loss of appetite as confirmed bythe investigator's assessment. High risk and otherwise healthyzanamivir-treated pat......i pneumonia. However, there is a high incidence of fever and rash that forces up to a third of the patients to stop taking the drug. The research team, headed by Powel Kazanjian, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical Center, designed a daily regimen of stepped-up dosages of B...