THE common cold could give you immunity from coronavirus, says This Morning’s Dr Philippa Kaye. The TV medic told Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford that researchers are checking how our bodies are f…
Immunologist Professor Antonio Bertoletti and colleagues from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore made the discovery after taking blood from 65 patients.
Betacoronaviruses, specifically OC43 and HKU1, cause common colds as well as severe chest infections in the oldest and youngest patients.They share many genetic features with the coronaviruses Covid-19, MERS and SARS, all of which jumped from animals to humans.caused by betacoronavirus or possibly from other as yet unknown pathogens.
T-cells - which differ from the B-cells that produce antibodies - provide another line of attack by targeting other infected cells.
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