San Antonio Researcher Finds a Potential New Weapon Against HIV

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Dr. Ruth Ruprecht, who declared war on HIV 30 years ago, says immunoglobulin, or igM, is a substance found in all vertebrate species.


A San Antonio researcher who “declared war” on HIV decades ago finds a potential new defense against the virus.

Dr. Ruth Ruprecht discovered her mission in medicine more than 30 years ago.

“When I was a young physician in training I took care of young people my age. They had unrecognizable conditions, no name was in the textbook for their condition. They all died. I was basically taking care of the very first AIDS patients” Ruprecht says.

But AIDS didn’t have a name then, and it would be years before researchers discovered the syndrome was caused by a retrovirus – HIV.

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