Australian Researchers Discover How Immune Systems Can Fight Novel Virus

A team of researchers in Australia have actually discovered how the human body can fight off the coronavirus through its own immune system, the same way you would fight flu. A pandemic that has gripped the whole world as of now has no apparent vaccine or cure except provision of symptomatic relief.

But the good news that was published in the Nature Medicine Journal this week, claims that people are definitely recovering from the virus as they would recover from a common flu. The research by Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity has been praised by other experts, with one calling it "a breakthrough".

The group of experts has discovered that there are actually four types of immune cells that can wade off the novel virus. Their findings were based on observing a lady in her late 40's who was admitted to Australian medical services and had arrived from China after being infected. She recovered in 14 days.

According to Professor Kedzierska, who is associated with the findings, the same cells that have been instrumental in the combating influenza saw the functioning of the same group of cells as in this case.

The trick is to “Identify when the immune cells kick in. It then predicts the course of the virus", said Prof Bruce Thompson, dean of health sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. This finding, experts believe can help in fast track the process of developing an effective vaccine.

Prof. Thompson further added while speaking to the media that “it is now important to also figure out what is lacking in different patients, those who didn’t survived and those who are suffering so that we can help them at the earliest.” The team of researchers are known to have been working round the clock to figure out a workable solution to the pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 6000 people worldwide and has more than 1.5 million infected across the globe.

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