The emerging coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 17,000 people in a matter of weeks. Researchers around the world are hunting for treatments, and a new analysis of , published today, suggests several avenues for treatment.
Disease-fighting agents from the immune systems of people infected with the coronavirus stopped the infection in a lab, as did those from horses that dealt with SARS. The emerging coronavirus is related to SARS, a disease that reached epidemic proportions in 2002 and 2003.