Human Antibodies Protect Mice from Avian Flu - May 28, 2007

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on May 29th, 2007 at 08:10am

An international team of scientists, including researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, report using antibodies derived from immune cells from recent human survivors of H5N1 avian influenza to successfully treat H5N1-infected mice as well as protect them from an otherwise lethal dose of the virus.

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