SINGAPORE, Sept. 30 - Even as Asia worries about a possible avian influenza pandemic, a much more common disease is sweeping the region, borne on the wings of mosquitoes and commercial aircraft: the dengue virus.
A3 Dengue Virus Spreads in Asia Even as Asia worries about a possible avian influenza pandemic, a much more common disease, the dengue virus, is sweeping the region, killing hundreds and infecting thousands.
The next patient population would be those with age-related macular degeneration, a much more common disease in which gradual deterioration of tissue in the retina leads to vision loss.
In fact, the more common disease in a global company is the "not invented here" syndrome, which especially afflicts subsidiaries and managers whose local triumphs have left them arrogant and unwilling to learn from successes in other parts of the world.
Another, more common disease that leads to loss of myelin, multiple sclerosis, seems unconnected to PrP's actions because myelin is lost in the central nervous system, not peripherally as it was in the current study.
In a more common disease, like T1D, we hypothesized that a single undiscovered variant would not be present and pathogenic at a percentage as high as 70%, rather we set the threshold of variance within each diabetes group at roughly half that, or 40%.
Other researchers are now investigating whether mosaicism is a factor in more common diseases, like schizophrenia.
This work also extends to more common diseases such as allergies and viral infections.
It will probably be years before the technology can be used for more common diseases in more patients.
The approach to treating a rare disease is different to that taken for more common diseases.
Because the early symptoms of ebola resemble more common diseases, reported infections quickly grow.
