Chemotherapy as new method for "bird flu" treatment
Swedish scientists suppose that chemotherapy may heal people sick of "bird flu" though this hypothesis has not been tested on patients yet.
Doctor Jan Enter from Stockholm hospital together with Hong Kong colleagues are confirmed in similarity of "bird flu" and infectious mononucleosis (HLH) symptoms.
Organism of HLH sick people produces large number of lymphocytes, which accumulate in healthy tissues damaging organs and initiating death. The disease may be inherited or developed after virus infection.
Children with inherited HLH disease used to die until Enter and other scientists developed chemotherapy on the basis of medication destroying excess lymphocytes. New treatment reduced number of fatal cases.
The scientist insists that H5N1 virus also initiates accumulation of lymphocytes. "Why not to use the same method for treatment of "bird flu" patients", - he says.
Enter`s suggestion aroused interest of representatives of World Health Organization, which examines issue of clinical investigations` financing.