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Thalidomide relieves symptoms of AIDS and leprosy.
Another food crisis was reported from Australia, where the Sydney Morning Herald reported that an estimated 800 out of 30,000 flocks of sheep in New South Wales were infected with OJD (Ovine Johnes disease), a wasting disorder similar to leprosy in humans.
Dominance of particular HLA alleles conferring resistance, and/or recessiveness of susceptibility (poor outcome) alleles, have been documented for schistosomiasis [ 24 ] , leprosy [ 25 ] , acute lymphoblastic leukemia (for which an infectious cause is hypothesized) [ 26 ] , and hepatitis B (in this case the outcome was vaccine responsiveness) [ 27 ] .
The Food and Drug Administration approved thalidomide as a treatment for leprosy complications.
Following low dose IL-2 treatment in leprosy patients, NK cell numbers were found to increase 6-fold and IL-2 therapy of HIV patients resulted in enhanced NK and LAK cell activity in vitro [ 18 ] IL-2 subcutaneously given resulted in, in vivo expansion of CD16 positive NK cells to very large numbers which showed LAK activity and ADCC (Antibody Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity) in vitro [ 19 ] . In view of the above mentioned and other reports available in literature, a pilot study was undertaken to see the effect of IL-2 and/or IL-12 stimulation on a long term basis and study the phenotypic changes corresponding to the cytotoxic changes after in vitro culture of the peripheral blood lymphocytes.