Treatment Cures Mice With West Nile Virus
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Missouri researchers have developed a potential treatment for the West Nile virus that can cure the disease in mice. A team from Washington University in St. Louis noted that antibodies isolated from humans who had successfully fought off the virus could cure mice, even after an infection had become established.
They reported in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine that they had produced artificial antibodies -- called monoclonal antibodies -- that were several hundred times more potent than those isolated from humans.
