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Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites. They act like a living organism only when they infect a cell. Apart from some protein structures which help them to attach and enter specific kinds of cells, viruses don't have enzyme systems that can be used for activities like "destroying other viruses".
A virus can not infect another virus as this ...
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This is an interesting question I have not considered, however it does have some caveats.
The ultimate question is how is COVID-19 going to be assaulted? What is the interaction to eradicate the pathogen? If we understand this, we don't need to create a bio-weapon to destroy a virus.
Also if we understand this interaction, we should arrive at a suitable ...
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Demers-Mathieu et al. 1 used ELISA to quantify immunoglobulin concentrations from milk after 2 hours of digestion in the stomachs of preterm-delivered and term-delivered infants. From the abstract:
Total IgA concentration decreased by 60% from human milk to the preterm infant stomach and decreased by 48% in the term infant stomach. Total IgM and IgG ...
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