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Excuse me. The republicans voted for this. The democrats refused to vote for it, unless it also funded the murder of more babies. So you can GFY.You fucs can't tell the truth.
The GOP is trying to strip the funding of Planned Parenthood and other things from the bill.
The dems will happily vote for a straight up and down Zika bill,
The Republican apostates in Congress do not give a shit about sick people.
Called ZIKV-117, the antibody — or immune system protein — was isolated from a patient who had been infected with Zika virus. In a study of pregnant mice infected with the mosquito-borne pathogen, ZIKV-117 protected the fetus against infection. The antibody, which stimulates a robust immune system response against the virus, neutralized all Zika strains that were tested. The amount of virus in the mother was greatly reduced, decreasing levels of the pathogen found in fetal placental and brain tissue.
A natural resources officer looks through a microscope at Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Pembroke Pines, Florida
Infected male mice given a single dose of ZIKV-117 were more likely to survive than untreated mice, even five days after Zika infection, suggesting that the antibody could be used to treat an active infection. The discovery was made by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in Missouri and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, and reported in the journal Nature.
A first against Zika
It is the first time any sort of treatment for Zika has been found, according to Michael Diamond, a microbiologist and immunologist at Washington University, and a senior co-author of the study. "Before this study, there had been no vaccine or any other study that had done anything in pregnant animals to show that anything could abort or prevent disease,” he said. “So one thing this does is suggest that antibodies are able to do it, and this actually bodes well for future vaccine efforts."
A researcher holds a tray of Zika virus growing in animal cells at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Researchers have identified a human antibody that prevents, in pregnant mice, the fetus from becoming infected and the placenta from being damaged. The antibody also protects adult mice from Zika disease.
Researchers screened 29 anti-Zika antibodies from five people who had recovered from Zika. ZIKV-117 was identified in one individual with a mild infection. "That's how this one antibody came to the top of the cream if you will,” Diamond said. “It came to the top of the glass. It turned out to be the best one for inhibiting the virus in cell culture, and then we tested it to see what it could do to Zika virus infection using an animal model — in this case, a mouse model of disease.” ZIKV-117 proved to be effective in the lab at neutralizing five different strains from around the world.
Global reach
