11.   Still other companies, he said, were developing other ways to attack the virus.

12.   That is when the helper T-cells, the generals, start proliferating and signaling the killer T-cells to attack the virus.

13.   The argument goes that this molecular mimicry triggers diabetes-immune cells attacking the virus also take out beta cells.

14.   The drugs attack the virus during the final phase of its life cycle.

15.   The infection is detected by the presence of antibodies in the blood, formed by the immune system to attack the virus.

16.   The main treatment now is the combination of alpha interferon and ribavirin, which some scientists think works by stimulating the immune system to attack the virus.

17.   Then came the advent of drugs to attack the virus itself and to treat the pneumonias and other infections that typically administer the coup de grace.

18.   These white blood cells attack viruses in a completely different way than antibodies attack them.

19.   With HIV, scientists developed multiple drug combinations to attack the virus from multiple directions, a technique that might apply to cancer.

20.   Other treatments, such as the drug AZT, attack the virus directly.