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A virus infects by attacking a host cell and using the cell’s support structure to propagate.  One way the immune system responds is by deploying cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) that essentially kill the infected cell and limit the ability of the virus to make copies.  The CTL must be able to recognize an infected cell either…

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, kills about 610,000 people per year in the United States and this represents about 25% of deaths.  People are not born with the disease, but due to inherited traits such as sex and race, and due to environmental factors, some people in the population develop…