Enzo Biochem Announces Study In Leading Scientific Journal Linking Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, A Deadly Human Disease With No Effective Treatment Options, To Presence Of A Monkey Virus

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enzo Biochem Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) today announced publication of a study in a leading scientific journal, Modern Pathology, a Nature Publishing Group publication, that shows a strong association of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a pulmonary disease with 100% mortality within five years, with the presence of the herpesvirus saimiri virus, a virus native to squirrel monkeys. The breakthrough discovery of the IPF’s origin is expected to result in a clinical diagnostic that could lead to screening and diagnosis, and perhaps result in potential treatment, for this fatal disease.

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