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Anonymous ID: 2bca70 March 18, 2020, 8:48 p.m. No.8471322   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1364 >>1757

COVFEFE

 

COV=Corona Virus

FEFE= Felide Felis?

 

Coronavirus: Singapore start-up thinks cat leukaemia drug could be Covid-19 cure:

As the race to find effective cures for the novel coronavirus heats up, a biomedical start-up based in Singapore and Malaysia believes it could have the answer – an antiviral drug which has successfully treated coronaviruses and leukaemia in cats.

 

The drug, known as Retromad1, has proven effective in treating the feline leukaemia virus and the feline infectious peritonitis virus, both of which are deadly to cats.

 

The latter virus is also known as FeCoV, as it is a coronavirus in the same family as the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease in humans.

 

Retromad1 is being used by some veterinary clinics in Singapore, said Dr Ng Cher Yew, CEO of Biovalence Technologies, which developed the drug.

 

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When asked why Biovalence believes its drug is able to treat Covid-19, a spokesman said several scientific papers had revealed that a specific mutation of the new coronavirus bears similarity to how dengue, Ebola and HIV infect their host through an enzyme known as the Furin protease.

>https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3075604/coronavirus-singapore-start-thinks-cat-leukaemia-drug

 

>Biovalence Technologies partners with USAMRID and NIH

Research Collaborations

 

  1. University of Stirling, United Kingdom: In vitro testing on Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV)

  2. University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia: Next Gen Sequencing on Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS)-causing Vibrio parahaemolyticus; acute and sub-chronic toxicology rat studies for RetroMAD1

  3. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore: Dengue mouse model for testing of RetroMAD1

  4. National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA: Testing of RetroMAD1 on HIV-1 humanized mouse model

  5. United States Army Medical Research Institute of infectious diseases (USAMRIID), USA: In vitro testing of RetroMAD1 for Ebola Virus (EBOV) and Zika Virus (ZIKV).

  6. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia: In vivo testing of RetroMAD1 Ebola Virus (EBOV)-infected mice

>https://biovalence.com.my/about-us/#researchcollaboration