Covid: Immune therapy from llamas shows promise

[Treeman]

A Covid therapy derived from a llama named Fifi has shown "significant potential" in early trials.

Public Health England said it was among the "most effective SARS-CoV-2 neutralising agents" it had ever tested.

Covid: Immune therapy from llamas shows promise - BBC News

 

[Gingergrrl]

Medscape also published an article about this today that was really interesting:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticl...=3658537&src=mkm_covid_update_210922_MSCPEDIT

I was curious what you thought about this @Hip (when you have time)

 

[Hip]

I was curious what you thought about this @Hip (when you have time)

Looks interesting, but will no doubt take time to come to market, if it ever does.

 

[Treeman]

My interest was sparked considering if it is effective against any of the suspects in ME/CFS.

Looks interesting, but will no doubt take time to come to market, if it ever does.

I thought reading it, it could be quick to the market due to it still been a rampaging disease in most of the world?

 

[Hip]

My interest was sparked considering if it is effective against any of the suspects in ME/CFS.

There are usually high levels of antibodies in ME/CFS patients to the viruses they have. If antibodies were effective for ME/CFS, then our immune system, pumping out those antibodies, would have cured us.

Antibodies are essential for acute infections, but ME/CFS involves intracellular viral infections, and antibodies do not really help much with those.