Scientists may have found the key to tackling coronavirus by using the blood of people who have recovered from the killer bug, it has been claimed.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, say the method of using “convalescent serum” could treat and slow the disease which has claimed 21 lives in the UK.
The "serum or plasma" is blood from survivors which should contain virus-fighting antibodies. Scientists claim that during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 transfusions of blood products from survivors led to a 50 per cent drop in deaths among severely-ill victim, NBC News reports.
Dr Arturo Casadevall, chairmain of the molecular microbiology and immunology department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
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