Mice may help protect humans in bio attacks

Australian scientists have identified the immune response that determines why some mice are infected with mousepox and others are not, a discovery that could lead to better protection for humans in a bio-terror attack.

Mice that are resistant to mousepox, a close relative of the smallpox virus, produce three regulatory proteins called cytokines that are absent in mice that become infected.

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Leave it to those crazy Aussies. Way to go! Pox may not seem like a big deal to most of us; however as the disease has become less common, so has our immunity to it.