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Aberdeen News Q&A

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Posted on Sat, Apr. 03, 2004

No human vaccine exists for West Nile virus

Editor's note: Readers with questions of the what's-going-on-in-northeastern-South-Dakota variety called the American News Line recently. Those questions - which may have been edited - and the answers appear below.

Q. Is there a human vaccine for West Nile virus?

A. No human vaccine exists yet for the virus, but companies are working toward that goal.

In the meantime, a more immediate focus is finding an effective cure for the effects of the virus.

The St. Louis-based GenoMed Inc. has developed a treatment that uses drugs currently in use by primary care physicians everywhere, available in every drugstore and already proven to be safe.

Dr. David Moskowitz theorizes that encephalitis and death result from an over-response by a person's immune system to the West Nile virus. GenoMed's protocol, which is patent-pending, gently suppresses the immune system, thus potentially saving the patient.

The treatment has shown a 90 percent cure rate in trials so far.

For more information, contact Moskowitz at [phone] or e-mail him at dwmos [e-mail].