Raising awareness of HTLV and calling for a national antenatal screening programme (UK). The cancer HTLV-1 causes is incurable, but transmission is preventable.
Brazil is ahead of the game in HTLV policies; testing pregnant women for HTLV… UK far behind- National Screening Committee UK feel that screening pregnant women not useful- Is it because it’s mainly a BAME population? #HTLV2024
Did you know, in 1980, @DrRobertCGallo and colleagues, discovered the first human retrovirus that can cause a form of leukemia and a fatal disease of the spinal cord, known as human T-cell leukemia virus-1 (HTLV-1)?