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Teen Takes On Donor's Immune System
Leibel writes "The Australian ABC News is reporting that a 15-year-old Australian liver transplant patient has defied modern medicine by taking on her donor's immune system. Demi-Lee Brennan had a liver transplant. Nine months later, doctors at Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital were amazed to find the teenager's blood group had changed to the donor's blood type. They were even more surprised when they found the girl's immune system had almost totally been replaced by that of the donor, meaning she no longer had to take anti-rejection drugs. 'Dr. Michael Stormon says his team is now trying to identify how the phenomenon happened and whether it can be replicated. "That's probably easier said than done... I think it's a long shot," he said. "I think it's a unique system of events whereby this happened. "We postulate there's a number of different issues - the type of liver failure that she had, some of the drugs that we use early on to suppress the immune system and also that she suffered an infection with a virus called CMV, or cytomegalovirus, which can also suppress the immune system."'"
kids these days.
must... stay... awake...
Kill her! Who knows what other powers she might have?
Perhaps it has something to do with the virus she caught--it suppressed the immune system to the point where it had to 'reboot', as it were, and apparently recognized the new hardware on boot?
Which would seem to indicate that the immune system BIOS has some kind of PnP support--I guess that'd explain some of the viruses...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
What the hell kind of car analogy is that?