Around 10 million people globally live with the life-threatening virus HTLV-1. Yet it remains a poorly understood disease that currently has no preventative treatments and no cure.
But a landmark study co-led by Australian researchers could change this, after finding existing HIV drugs can suppress transmission of the HTLV-1 virus in mice.
The study, published in Cell, could lead to the first treatments to prevent the spread of this virus that is endemic among many First Nations communities…
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