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SARS survivors help develop weapon against bird flu
Telegraph.co.uk
June 19, 2006

People who have survived infection by the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu are helping to develop a new weapon to fight the influenza.

An international team led by Prof Antonio Lanzavecchia at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has discovered how to mass-produce antibodies - part of the body's protective immune system - from the cells of these survivors of the Sars virus.

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