{"id":236397,"date":"2026-05-02T22:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-develop-new-antibody-for-virus-that-infects-95-of-people"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:08:47","slug":"scientists-develop-new-antibody-for-virus-that-infects-95-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-develop-new-antibody-for-virus-that-infects-95-of-people","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop New Antibody For Virus That Infects 95% of People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-antibody-for-virus-that-infects-95-of-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epstein%E2%80%93Barr_virus\">Epstein-Barr virus<\/a> (EBV) is one of the world\u2019s most common <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">viruses<\/a>, thought to be lurking in 95 percent of adults. For most, it causes no obvious symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>But EBV is more than a short-term infection.<\/p>\n<p>Once it enters the body, EBV can stay for life, and it has been linked to several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/common-viruses-may-wake-dormant-breast-cancer-cells-study-finds\">cancers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-discover-new-evidence-a-common-virus-helps-trigger-ms\">multiple sclerosis<\/a>, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/giant-study-reveals-why-some-viruses-hide-inside-your-body-for-life\">severe health complications<\/a>. Now, new research has given us a promising way to fight it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is one of the world\u2019s most common viruses, thought to be lurking in 95 percent of adults. For most, it causes no obvious symptoms. But EBV is more than a short-term infection. Once it enters the body, EBV can stay for life, and it has been linked to several cancers, multiple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}