WASHINGTON, Feb 5 — The United States is working with a pharmaceutical company to develop a treatment for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, using a class of drug that has boosted survival rates among Ebola patients, officials said yesterday. The partnership between the Department of Health and Human...
Wednesday, 05 Feb 2020 07:22 AM MYT
The partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services and Regeneron will develop monoclonal antibodies to fight the infection, a different line of treatment to the antiretrovirals and flu drugs that have also emerged as possible defences against the disease. Monoclonal antibodies are lab-produced copies of a single type of antibody and are a form of immunotherapy.
The company has also developed a treatment for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus along similar lines. Chinese doctors have been giving anti-HIV drugs to coronavirus patients in Beijing, based on a 2004 study published after the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that showed “favourable” responses.
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