Mystery AIDS-Like Disease Baffles Doctors
Sky News | A mysterious new disease that has AIDS-like symptoms has been infecting dozens of people in Asia and the U.S. who do not have HIV. Researchers say the patient’s immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. It is not known what is triggering the symptoms but the disease is not thought to be contagious.
Researchers are calling this new disease an “adult-onset” immunodeficiency syndrome because it develops later in life and they don’ not know why or how. The disease develops around age 50 on average but does not run in families, which makes it unlikely that a single gene is responsible.
