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Measles Doesn't Work in the Way We Thought Sunday, June 22, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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The infectious romp that the measles virus takes through the body doesn’t need to involve the airways, as was previously thought. Instead, the virus prefers to replicate in immune cells. This finding potentially paves the way for new and better cancer treatments that use a modified version of the measles virus to focus on the immune system. Measles was thought to spread by first infecting the cells that line the airways before going on to attack the immune cells. (source: mayoclinic.org)
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