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Coronavirus could be beaten by cat medicine, say scientists working on Covid-19 cure

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A medicine that is used to treat leukaemia in cats is the latest hope in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Retromad1, a drug developed by Malaysian biotech firm Biovalence Technologies, has been proven to effectively fight a viral form of leukaemia and infectious peritonitis virus in cats.

Retromad1 was originally developed as a cure for herpes in humans, although it’s not currently approved for human use. Nevertheless, the drug has been shown to kill off FeCoV, a coronavirus that infects cats and there is considerable hope that it will have the same effect on COVID-19.

A Biovalence spokesperson said that several scientific papers showed that a specific mutation of Sars-CoV-2 bears similarity to how dengue, Ebola, FeCoV and HIV

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