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A team of immunologists and virologists has successfully recovered immune system B cells from survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic and used them to prepare monoclonal antibodies that provided protection against infection with the virus.
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“These studies demonstrate that survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic possess highly functional, virus-neutralizing antibodies to this uniquely virulent virus, and that humans can sustain circulating B memory cells to viruses for many decades after exposure—well into the tenth decade of life.”
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