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Aethlon Medical Announces Dengue Virus Collaboration With Government of India Researchers.


SAN DIEGO -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
:AEMD AEMD Automotive Electric Motor Drive (US Department of Energy program) ) announced today that it has agreed to collaborate with researchers at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) to initiate testing its Hemopurifier(TM) technology as a potential treatment for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever. The NIV is a leading infectious disease research center in India, and is designated as a collaborating laboratory of the World Health Organization (WHO). It was established in 1952 under the auspices of the Indian Counsel of Medical Research (ICMR ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research
ICMR Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources
ICMR Interagency Committee on Medical Records
) and the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States. The ICMR was established by the Government of India The Government of India (Hindi: भारत सरकार [3]Bhārat Sarkār), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government  in 1911 and oversees medical research in the country.

Under the collaboration, initial testing of the Hemopurifier(TM) will focus on in vitro studies that document the removal rate of Dengue virus and related toxins from blood. Dengue Virus and virulent Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF DHF dihydrofolate or dihydrofolic acid. ) represent an international health issue that remains untreatable with traditional antiviral drug and vaccine therapy. The global prevalence of dengue has grown dramatically in recent decades. The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries, and according to the World Health Organization, as many as 50 million cases of dengue infection occur each year. Initial manufacturing and shipping of Hemopurifier(TM) devices to the NIV is expected to occur in the first quarter of 2007.

Many viral pathogens, including Dengue, are not treatable with antiviral drug or vaccine therapy. When therapies do evolve, viruses often mutate to become resistant to treatment. Viruses that cross over from animal species into man compound the treatment challenge. Recent examples of such zoonotic Zoonotic
A disease which can be spread from animals to humans.

Mentioned in: Zoonosis
 transmission include HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. , SARS, West Nile, Ebola, Marburg, and most recently the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza. Genetic modification of viruses with the intent to create drug- and vaccine-resistant bioterror threats minimize the likelihood that traditional therapeutics will keep pace.

The Aethlon Hemopurifier(TM) is a first-in-class device designed to assist in the treatment of drug- and vaccine-resistant pathogens. The device promises to augment the benefit of drug therapy when available, and serves as a first line countermeasure in the absence of drug or vaccine treatments. The technology converges the blood filtration principles established in hemodialysis and plasmapheresis plasmapheresis, see apheresis.  with the immobilization Immobilization Definition

Immobilization refers to the process of holding a joint or bone in place with a splint, cast, or brace. This is done to prevent an injured area from moving while it heals.
 of affinity agents that capture envelope viruses by the surface carbohydrate structures they have evolved to evade the natural immune response. As such, the Hemopurifier(TM) seeks to reduce the body burden of infectious virus and related toxins, thus increasing the likelihood that a patient's own immune response can overcome infection.

About Aethlon Medical

Aethlon Medical has developed a first-in-class medical device to treat infectious disease. The device, known as the Hemopurifier(TM), is a broad-spectrum treatment countermeasure against drug- and vaccine-resistant bioweapons, naturally evolving pandemic threats such as H5N1 Avian Flu, and chronic infectious disease targets including Hepatitis-C (HCV HCV
abbr.
hepatitis C virus


HCV 1 Hepatitis C virus, see there 2. Human coronavirus. See Coronavirus.
) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus human immunodeficiency virus
n.
HIV.


Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
A transmissible retrovirus that causes AIDS in humans.
 (HIV). Global researcher Frost & Sullivan recently awarded the Hemopurifier(TM) the 2006 Technology Innovation Award, and The AIDS Institute presented Aethlon with the 2007 Innovative HIV Life Sciences Leadership Award. Aethlon has also initiated research on a second-generation Hemopurifier(TM) that targets the capture of growth factors inherent in the spread of Cancer. More information on Aethlon Medical and the Hemopurifier(TM) technology can be found at www.aethlonmedical.com.

Certain of the statements herein may be forward looking and involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Aethlon Medical, Inc. to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the Company's ability to raise capital when needed, the Company's ability to complete the development of its planned products, the ability of the Company to obtain FDA FDA
abbr.
Food and Drug Administration


FDA,
n.pr See Food and Drug Administration.

FDA,
n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration.
 and other regulatory approvals permitting the sale of its products, the Company's ability to manufacture its products and provide its services, the impact of government regulations, patent protection on the Company's proprietary technology, product liability exposure, uncertainty of market acceptance, competition, technological change, and other risk factors. In such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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