Very safe and suitable for patients according to initial results

Costa Rica is trying a treatment against "Covid-19" using horse blood

Tests on 27 patients in Costa Rica with advanced horse blood plasma therapy

For weeks, researchers in Costa Rica have been conducting tests on 27 patients who are taking a treatment against the emerging coronavirus, developed from horse blood plasma.

Researchers at the Clodomero Picado Institute of the University of Costa Rica injected six horses with proteins specific to the Coronavirus that they obtained from laboratories in China and Britain, and then collected the antibodies developed from the animals and found in their blood plasma.

Lab experiments were initially conducted in a US laboratory affiliated with George Mason University in Virginia, in the eastern United States.

"We exposed the antibodies produced in horses to several solutions of the SARS-Cove 2 virus, which were obtained through cell culture, and we found that the threat of the virus has disappeared," said American researcher Charles Bailey in charge of the study.

After that, a first set of 1000 packages were manufactured, each containing 10 ml of purified solution, and it is currently used in phase two experiments on 26 patients who were detected with COVID-19.

The doctor supervising the study, Willem Bougan, indicated that the preliminary results showed that the treatment is "very safe, which leads to the belief that it is suitable for patients."

Andres Hernandez, the supervising pharmacist at the Claudomero Pico Institute, explained that if the treatment is approved after the third experimental phase, which will include hundreds of patients, then it will begin to be used on people in the first stages of the disease "when the symptoms are mild and the viral load is weak."

He pointed out that the goal is for the antibodies taken from horse blood to neutralize the risk of the virus, which leads to a reduction in symptoms within four days, allowing the patient to breathe without difficulties, with the symptoms of high fever resolving.

With this treatment, health authorities hope to reduce the flow of patients to intensive care departments.

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