Zika virus antibodies stop virus in monkeys however not fetus

Diogo Magnani, a scholar by the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, prepares cell cultures in a bio security cabinet in this October 2017 picture. Magnani is the lead author of a research which identified a "cocktail" of antibodies which can protect the spread of Zika virus in monkeys. This 7 days, Magnani & his colleagues published an update to their research, finding which When the experimental medication cleared Zika virus from the blood of pregnant monkeys, the antibodies can not erase the virus from the amniotic fluid, leaving the fetus at danger of contagion & possibility brain abnormalities. Al Diaz Miami Herald

Indian mosquitoes could transmit Zika contagion: NIV research

scholars have disclosed that the Indian mosquito, while contaminated by the African strain of the Zika(ZIKV), could transmit the contagion to suckling mice. Fresh Delhi: Aedes aegypti, the notorious dengue fever mosquito is susceptible to Zika, tells a Fresh research. scholars, including from the National Institute of Virology, Pune, have disclosed that the Indian mosquito, while infective by the African strain of the Zika(ZIKV), could transmit the contagion to suckling mice. "This research has shown that Indian mosquitoes pick up ZIKV naturally. Later, their organs were removed & examined for the presence of ZIKV, in that high amount of the African strain of the Zika was recorded.

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