Posted on 02/27/2020 6:41:32 PM PST by TigerClaws
Israeli scientists are reportedly only a few weeks away from having developed the first vaccine to combat the coronavirus, which originated in China, and could have the vaccine available 90 days after that.
“Congratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough,” Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis said, according to The Jerusalem Post. “I am confident there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat,” Akunis said, referring to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
A team of scientists at MIGAL had been working for years on a vaccine against an infectious bronchitis virus (IBV).
“Our basic concept was to develop the technology and not specifically a vaccine for this kind or that kind of virus,” said Dr. Chen Katz, MIGAL’s biotechnology group leader. “The scientific framework for the vaccine is based on a new protein expression vector, which forms and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues by self-activated endocytosis, causing the body to form antibodies against the virus.”
“Let’s call it pure luck,” Katz said. “We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.”
The Jerusalem Post reported:
But after scientists sequenced the DNA of the novel coronavirus causing the current worldwide outbreak, the MIGAL researchers examined it and found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human one, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, which increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.
“All we need to do is adjust the system to the new sequence,” Katz said. “We are in the middle of this process, and hopefully in a few weeks we will have the vaccine in our hands. Yes, in a few weeks, if it all works, we would have a vaccine to prevent coronavirus.”
The CEO of MIGAL said that the company is moving as fast as it can to make the vaccine available to the public in the form of a highly accessible oral vaccination.
PING! Some potentially good news for once.
Yeah i’m not gonna take it, no thanks.
You know, that Trump is in the know in this area. He and his Israeli buddy are on top of the whole matter.
Maybe time to buy back into the market tomorrow.
Somebody call Shiff!!!
Now Trump is colluding with Israeli scientists.
Oh nose oh nose oh nose
100 days away? 100 days ago NO ONE was even talking about it!
If you want something done, turn it over to the Israelis.
Shows what can be done by people who are not hindered by a government that wants people to die.
“Yeah i’m not gonna take it, no thanks.”
If people around you start dropping, you will.
Another example: TEVA Pharmaceuticals is an Israeli company that makes lots of generic drugs.
Don’t share it with the muslims.
And of course the muzzies would rather die than take a vaccine from Israel.
Another Jewish Nobel Prize?
Agree!
All that military aid paid off in other areas. Europe spends it on social programs.
Yeah....and there’s a lab in San Diego that had a breakthrough. And there’s a lab in Houston that has a breakthrough.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Not before.
However many Arab and Muslim lives the Israeli scientists save, they will only get rockets and nail bombs in thanks for it. Israelis have triple digit Nobel prizes in science and medicine, while their Arab neighbors who outnumber 100 to 1 have about 4, I think.
Any vaccine would be for the next flu season.
Have the “Palestinians” ever contributed anything except hatred for Israel?
Only because they stole the technology from the muslims.../s
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