West Nile virus infections that have reached the CNS in mice can be treated effectively with a plant-derived monoclonal antibody – a method that might have lower manufacturing costs and greater scalability than mammalian cell culture production systems, a recent study suggests.Effective and specific antiviral treatments are needed to fight West Nile virus (WNV) infections globally, but methods have not existed to produce monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) on an economically viable scale around the...

PHILADELPHIA (EGMN) – After presenting to a busy pediatric emergency department, only 3% of children admitted had suspected pandemic influenza during the peak of the outbreak last year.“Our cases of influenza-like illness were relatively mild and associated with a much lower hospital admission rate than cases we saw for other reasons,” Dr. Jeffrey Chen said at the annual meeting of the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research. “Most of the admissions [for suspected pandemic flu] were younger...