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Health BelgiumCould Llamas (Yes, the Spitting Animals!) Really Help Us Fight Coronavirus?
After discovering that the antibodies in llamas could neutralize SARS and MERS, researchers in Belgium quickly shifted the study to COVID-19 – and found that the same antibodies are successfully able to defuse the new virus too!
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Health MyanmarThere Are Six New (!) Coronaviruses, Read Why that is a Good Thing
Following a collection of samples from 464 bats in Myanmar, scientists have discovered six new coronaviruses – an achievement that is especially significant today in showing how such viruses can be prevented from ever impacting humans.
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Health United KingdomBiggest Clinical Trial Yet Gives Hope for COVID-19 Treatments
The United Kingdom has begun recruiting patients for the world’s largest clinical trial of potential COVID-19 treatments – testing several promising medicines that may globally benefit hundreds of thousands of people.
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Health SenegalWest Africa Learned the Hard Way, but Health Systems Are Prepared for Coronavirus
West African countries set up health systems in remote areas after learning from the impacts of the Ebola outbreak. Now, these systems are helping community workers detect and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, say health experts.
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Society GermanyGermany Takes in Corona Patients to Relieve Italy’s Overloaded Hospitals
In a first for Italy, critically ill patients are being transferred from the nation’s overcrowded hospitals to a neighboring country: Germany is offering Italians the assistance they need while its own hospitals have enough space to accommodate COVID-19 victims.
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