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FIGHTING ALLERGIES BY MIMICKING PARASITIC WORMS. ?Mounting evidence in both humans and animals sugg?

By Glenn Reynolds

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FIGHTING ALLERGIES BY MIMICKING PARASITIC WORMS. “Mounting evidence in both humans and animals suggests that infection with these parasitic worms seems to protect against a number of inflammatory diseases, including asthma and allergy, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, and type 1 diabetes. Because parasitic infection is unappealing to even the most severe allergy sufferer, some scientists hope to decipher how these organisms control the immune systems of their human hosts and to develop new therapies that replicate the parasites’ beneficial effect.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 10, 2010 (boomark / email).

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