New antibodies rescued monkeys from Lass's fatal fever

Lass's fever annually carries away thousands lives in West Africa. The main problem at development treatments is a high genetic variety of a virus which causes it. Recent research showed the high therapeutic potential of a preparation under the name arevirumab 3, representing cocktail from monoclonal antibodies. The preparation cured macaques-kraboyedov even at introduction at late stages of infection. It also quickly reduced virus loading. Credit: 123rf.com In the research published in Magazine National academy sciences United States of America "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", the combination from three neutralized antibodies was tested...