HACKER Q&A
📣 asimjalis

Why does coronavirus not kill bats and can we use their antibodies?


Why does coronavirus not kill bats and can we use their antibodies?




👤 Leftium
This 12 minute video explained it pretty well: https://youtu.be/iJ2jDPgvbTY

👤 poormystic
It's a good question. Based purely on a guess, I'd say that human antibodies are constructed in such a way that other parts of the immune system do not destroy them - in other words our natural antibodies pass a "self or non-self" test. I don't know whether that applies to the immunoglobulins. But I think bat antibodies might make us very sick