September 2000 Cover
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A one-year study in Thailand has found that the tropical disease scrub typhus appears to suppress HIV to undetectable levels. Researchers at the U.S.-Thai-funded Armed Forces Institute of Medical Sciences report that
the viral load in AIDS patients declined significantly after they contracted scrub typhus.
The research team leader said that scrub typhus antibodies could become an inexpensive way to treat HIV, since most people in developing countries cannot afford combination drug cocktails. While
more research is needed, Watt's team will study a larger sample of HIV patients and investigate a microbial agent called Orientia tsutsugamushi, which is part of the typhus virus.
Editor's Note: from Agence France Presse
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