Tag: antibodies

• Thursday, July 30th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  Argentina begins clinical trials on Covid-19 patients with antibodies from horses

  

  Argentina has started clinical trials on treating COVID-19 using hyperimmune serum developed with antibodies from horses, authorities from the laboratory involved said on Wednesday.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Falkland Islands: one positive antibody test in March, but no coronavirus results for over sixty days

  

  The Falkland Islands government has confirmed that one individual has tested positive for Coronavirus antibodies. Chief Medical Officer, Dr Rebecca Edwards, said that it is likely that the individual was exposed in late February or early March, and exposure is thought to have taken place on a fishing vessel.

• Friday, April 24th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Swiss pharma giant warns about unreliability of blood tests to check for COVID-19 antibodies

  

  Some blood tests being marketed to tell people if they have had the new coronavirus are a “disaster”, Roche Chief Executive Severin Schwan said as he prepares to launch the drug maker's own antibody test next month.