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Human Zika Antibodies Prevent Infection in Mice

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: December 18th, 2016, 10:00am UTC

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. pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Human+Zika+Antibodies+Prevent+Infection+in+Mice+%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2hf0wrw"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F12%2F18%2F0554243%2Fhuman-zika-antibodies-prevent-infection-in-mice%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/12/18/0554243/human-zika-antibodies-prevent-infection-in-mice?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/12/18/0554243/human-zika-antibodies-prevent-infection-in-mice?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/_-wd40bkU90" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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