I’M GOING OUT ON A LIMB HERE, BUT THIS DOESN’T SOUND GOOD: New immune-system disease found in Asians; causes AIDS-like symptoms in people without HIV. On the other hand, there’s this: “Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients’ immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. What triggers this isn’t known, but the disease does not seem to be contagious.”

Let’s hope that’s right, and that there’s a treatment.