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Article: The body at war: baring the secrets of the immune system.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 2, 1990
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As a killer, it is never likely to match the toll of the Black Death, the flea-born epidemic that at its height during the Middle Ages laid waste to at least two fifths of Europe's population. Smallpox and cholera claimed more victims than this scourge, too. Yet never has there been a more diabolical plaque than AIDS in the way it attacks the human immune system, the very shield that the body depends upon to protect it from disease. Last week, 11,000 researchers gathered in San Francisco at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS to share the results of their frantic search for a vacine and cure for the malady that is expected to have killed 5 to 6 million by the ...