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To: Mom MD
Passive immunity. You're covered until the antibodies are consumed by hitting targets or degrade into inactive forms. If there is any viable virus left, there is a possibility of relapse. It takes about 2 weeks for the adaptive immune system to start making antibody, but you need an antigen target. The zmapp recipients may have just enjoyed a postponement of their fate.
58 posted on 10/04/2014 10:26:27 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

presumably they have already had enough target to ramp up immune system. Thanks, I had not read up on zmapp to know what it was. Since we don’t have any anyway, it wont be involved in any of the patients I may be treating in the next few months.


60 posted on 10/05/2014 12:15:58 AM PDT by Mom MD
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