Not exact matches
After a flood of optimism and investment in the
early 1990's, the struggle
to overcome host
immune response and fears that organs could transmit pig
viruses to humans scared off pharmaceutical funders.
Virologists at the European Flu Summit in Brussels last week told New Scientist that
early results show 13 times more H7N9
virus is needed
to elicit a protective
immune response than is needed for ordinary flu.
Our study suggests that the
immune response to an
early infection, HSV - 2, may be the additional factor that increases the risk for severity of Zika
virus - induced disease,» said Dr. Gil Mor, senior author of the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology study.