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Immune response to SARS sets up puzzling paradox

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SARS last year claimed nearly 800 lives worldwide. Many researchers initially suggested that those who die have an overactive immune system that triggers a destructive inflammatory response.

The theory was supported by anecdotal reports that at a hospital in Guangzhou, the southern Chinese city where SARS originated, AIDS patients—who presumably have weak immune systems—were resistant to SARS infection.

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