The hero that finally ends the coronavirus pandemic might be … a llama?
That’s right. Scientists in the U.S. and Belgium believe llamas might be the key to developing a successful coronavirus treatment.
Llamas have the ability to produce nanobodies – small, disease-fighting antibodies that make them resistant to sickness. Scientists hope those nanobodies could be developed into a treatment that stops COVID-19 from spreading in the lungs.
In fact, llamas are already being studied for other types of coronavirus like SARS and MERS.
How long do you think it will take to develop a coronavirus vaccine? Have we been underestimating llamas?
