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.
Additionally, it seems the new disease latches onto cells the same way SARS does. It’s possible that vaccines and treatments developed for SARS could be used against this new outbreak, too, a team of researchers from China suggest in a Nature study.
Starting in mid-December, residents of Wuhan, China, started showing up to hospitals with fevers and coughs. As the cases piled up, doctors realized the illness wasn’t a typical flu ...
