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Blog 10 Extra Credit: Lassa Fever Outbreak in Nigeria

Though it seems like Covid-19 may be the only outbreak going on, I can promise you it’s not. Maybe that makes me the bearer of bad news, but I also think it may be a good thing to alleviate our minds from thinking about the Coronavirus occasionally. I will say, the Lassa Fever in Nigeria…

Blog 10: Monoclonal Antibody Drugs

The FDA approved monoclonal antibody I will be digging into for this blog is adalimumab otherwise referred to as Humira or Amjevita. Taken directly from the Mednet website, “The term monoclonal antibody means that the man-made antibody is synthesized from cloned immune cells, and the identical monoclonal antibody produced binds to one type of antigen. “…


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