Adenovirus Serotype 36 - Public Awareness

Public Awareness

On March 18, 2006 the research of Richard Atkinson (University of Wisconsin) was posted on some websites. In those studies, blood tests conducted on over 2000 Australians showed that more than 20% of the study participants had contracted Ad-36 viral infection.

On January 26, 2009, many popular internet news portals ran reports of the pending release of scientific research by Professor Nikhil Dhurandhar (Pennington Biomedical Research Centre, Louisiana) implicating AD-36 as a potential cause for Britain's relatively high rate of adult obesity.

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