New Immune Deificiency Disease

A new disease has been identified in Asia, and in the US amongst people who are from Asia or have recently been in Asia.

This new disease began appearing in 2004 and works much in the same way as AIDS in that it attacks the immune system of it's victims.

It creates autoantibodies that block interferon gamma, which is what allows the body to fight infections.

So far there's been no discernible way that this disease spreads though.

Researchers and doctors have yet to even figure how the disease starts, though they have ruled out genetics.

At this point doctors are calling it an adult onset immunodeficiency syndrome as it seems to come on with age.

Treatment has seemed to counter the disease, but it is not believed to be curable.