TUPELO ⢠It was mid-January 2020, and the top epidemiologist for the state of Mississippiâs public health agency was alarmed by skyrocketing pneumonia cases in the Wuhan province of China linked to a novel coronavirus.
Over nearly three decades working for the Mississippi State Department of Health, Dr. Paul Byers had monitored new disease outbreaks before, including H1N1, Ebola and Zika
But this time seemed different.
âI think this is the big one,â Byers said, showing the data to the MSDH agency chief, Dr. Thomas Dobbs.
Byers would soon be proven right.
Widely known at the time simply as âthe coronavirus,â the disease soon spread beyond China.
Canberra researchers at the Australian National University find a protein that could stop allergic reactions and anaphylaxis
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Dr Paula Gonzalez Figueroa spent years working off a guess that neuritin had a regulatory function in stopping allergies and autoimmunity.
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Thousands of people live with allergies and autoimmune diseases, and that number is only rising, for reasons that are not entirely clear to medical researchers.
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It has the potential to tackle numerous conditions, including autoimmune diseases and asthma
The researchers hope to develop better treatments than EpiPens or ventolin
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