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Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton Study New Coronavirus

Steve Fullerton — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:34:10 +0000

Last September, 17 people were infected by an emerging coronavirus in the Middle East and Europe. Eleven died.

Researchers quickly needed to see how the virus caused disease so they could evaluate potential vaccines and antiviral treatments

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Hamilton's Rocky Mountain Lab Study Offers Insight to Viral Infection of Brain

Steve Fullerton — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:38:27 +0000

A new study of La Cross virus (LACV) in Dr. Karin Peterson's lab at Hamilton's Rocky Mountain Laboratories suggests that an invading virus can cause the body's own immune system to kill neurons in the brain

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Rocky Mountain Labs Assist Ebola Vaccine Study

Steve Fullerton — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:03:50 +0000

New study shows that an experimental vaccine uses antibodies to help protect nonhuman animals against the deadly Ebola virus infection.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever causes an infection that can include shock, bleeding and organ failure with a fatality rate of 90 percent

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Rocky Mountain Labs Helps Develop Hendra virus antibody

Steve Fullerton — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:40:49 +0000

A human antibody given to monkeys infected with the Hendra virus protected them from disease, according to a published study by the National Institutes of Health, including the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton

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