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Human Zika Antibodies Prevent Infection in Mice (voanews.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the fighting-infections dept.

An anonymous reader quotes VOA News: Chinese researchers have identified broadly neutralizing human antibodies from a Zika patient that protected mice against infection with the mosquito-borne illness. The substances are part of a growing arsenal of antibody-related treatments to fight the disease, which causes severe birth defects in babies... Unlike other Zika-neutralizing antibodies that have been isolated from human patients, the newly-discovered antibodies only target the virus.

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  1. Thats great by rossdee · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its about time we did something for the mice
    after all we've been using them for a couple of centuriesMaybe they will buy us a new planet if the old one gets destroyed by Vogons

    1. Re:Thats great by doccus · · Score: 1

      But better not let the rats know.

    2. Re:Thats great by doccus · · Score: 1

      Yes. who could ever have anything against those sweet li'l mouses? Except.. uh.. they actually, naturally , harbor much deadlier diseases than rats (rats just pick up unsanitary filth from their living conditions). and unlike rats, they hate people. Rats are far more sociable and if raised in captivity, actually LIKE people. How people feel about THEM, is another question ;-)

  2. Great, now mice will survive the apocolypse by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

    They will rule alongside the cockroaches.

  3. Re:but it will cause by jfdavis668 · · Score: 1

    How can you tell when a mouse is autistic?

  4. Go China! by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Technology advance by one country helps all countries.

    --
    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  5. Re:but it will cause by johannesg · · Score: 2

    It starts compiling Linux kernels and debating the relative merits of vi and emacs.