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{{TreatmentInfo
|drug_name=Newcastle Disease Virus
|category=Oncolytic virotherapy
|book_text=An alternative approach to vaccine treatment utilizes viruses. Newcastle disease is a lethal
chicken disease, which is caused by a virus that is innocuous to humans, causing only
transitory mild flu-like symptoms. It was developed as a cancer treatment in Hungary but
has largely been ignored in this country until only recently. Newcastle Disease Virus is
currently being utilized in combination with autologous dendritic cell vaccines by the
IOZK clinic in Koln (Cologne) Germany.
}}