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Coronavirus: Monkeys can't get reinfected with COVID-19, study claims

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Macaque monkeys can't get reinfected with the deadly coronavirus, a study suggests. It was announced on Wednesday that confirmed cases of the new coronavirus have topped 200,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.

But the study could help slow the increase of that number as it showed the monkeys generated specific antibodies in response to the virus which could be useful in vaccine and treatment development against the deadly disease.

The research, posted March 14 to the preprint database medRxiv, has not been peer reviewed. The small study included only four rhesus macaques, two of which were exposed to the virus twice. "According to our current study, the antibodies produced by the infected monkeys can protect the monkey

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