George Daley of Harvard Medical School said on December 1 that he and his team have seen multiple
patients affected by NEMO
deficiency syndrome, a disorder where an inherited faulty gene results in a weak
immune system and leaves
patients prone to serious infections.
Patients with acquired
immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) exhibit clinical symptoms similar to those associated with zinc
deficiency, including
immune deficiencies, impaired taste and appetite, decreased food intake, gastrointestinal malfunction with diarrhea, alopecia, epithelial lesions and hypogonadism and hypospermia (King and Keen 1994, Odeh 1992).