Of note, HTLV-1 can become symptomatic even decades after initial infection. "In the current environment of increasing HTLV-1 incidence, the existence of horizontal transmission causing HTLV-1 uveitis ...

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 ...

Thousands of Aborigines living in a remote town in Central Australia are affected by the HTLV-1 virus, a distant relative of HIV which causes lymphoma and leukemia in some patients. Researchers ...

New research suggests that 30 years after the first epidemiological survey of the seroprevalence of Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infections in Gabon, the country remains highly ...

A study led by SMU suggests that oleandrin — a drug derived from the Nerium oleander plant — could prevent the HTLV-1 virus from spreading by targeting a stage of the reproduction process that is not ...

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 ...

A deadly virus has infected around 40 percent of adults in rural Aboriginal communities in Australia, and its spread is causing alarm. It’s nothing new, however: The reason it’s got public health ...

Around 10 million people globally live with the life-threatening human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1), yet it remains a poorly understood disease that currently has no preventative ...

Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and type 2 (HTLV-2) are human retroviruses that are distantly related to the more widely recognized retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), ...

It was a mystery illness to them. No one in the immediate Kurian family had heard of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, HTLV-1, before patriarch George was diagnosed with blood cancer. Doctors told ...