Source: Israel testing coronavirus vaccine prototype on rodents

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Source: Israel testing coronavirus vaccine prototype on rodents

Netanyahu ordered Israel Institute for Biological Research to join fight against pandemic on Feb. 1; PMO says IIBR director reported ‘significant progress’ but says that they are only now ‘preparing a model for commencing animal trial’

Reuters | March 31, 2020:

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Israel has begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine prototype on rodents at its bio-chemical defense laboratory, a source said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), in rural Nes Ziona, to join the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Feb. 1, prompting an easing of its secrecy as it cooperates with civilian scientists and private firms.

In a statement, Netanyahu’s office said IIBR director Shmuel Shapira had informed him of “significant progress” in designing a vaccine prototype and that the institute “is now preparing a model for commencing an animal trial.”

A source familiar with IIBR activities told Reuters that trials were already under way on rodents. The source declined to identify the kind of rodent.

The IIBR is widely assumed to have worked on biological and chemical arms projects. Israel neither confirms nor denies this.

In rare public comments, IIBR chief innovation officer Eran Zahavy said last week that the institute had shifted its entire focus to the new coronavirus, with three groups trying to develop a vaccine against the COVID-19 disease it causes, and others researching potential treatments.

“We are trying as much as we can to collaborate and have other ideas of other people,” he said at last week’s English-language online conference hosted by Jerusalem Venture Partners.
“But the facility of the lab is very crowded and very busy and very dangerous so it has to be very slow and very cautious.”

Israel has reported 4,473 cases of COVID-19 and 17 fatalities. Having tightened restrictions on public movement, Netanyahu is weighing a lockdown of parts of the country.

Both Netanyahu and the IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi went into self-isolation this week after being exposed to coronavirus carriers.

Zahavy described arranging an animal test-subject as “a very big challenge” because “this disease is not affecting animals.”

“It’s not enough only to detect neutralizing antibodies in the animal. You really want to see them getting sick and getting better by this vaccine,” he said.

The IIBR has a “unique animal” for such tests, he said, as well as “a very unique technology to detect animals – even if they are not really sick – to follow them and see their interaction with the disease”. He did not elaborate.

The IIBR is also involved in plasma collection from people who have recovered from infection with the new coronavirus, in the hope that this might help research.

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said the IIBR was sampling several COVID-19 testing kits on offer before the country orders them en masse.

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taxpayer22
taxpayer22
3 years ago

A coronavirus vaccine will not be discovered in Venezuela nor in any other socialist country… It will be discovered in a pharmaceutical lab in a free enterprise, capitalist country.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  taxpayer22

I have my doubts about MUSLIM countries too!
Eye roll.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I hope they come up with something. Fauci seems to be waiting for the perfect conditions to drag this out. All he seems to do is paraphrase what Brix has to say as she lives in her gloom and doom modeling world. Her models are only as good as the assumptions they input and I am wondering about those assumptions. You can make a model say whatever you want it to.

I wish Trump would get some other people in there, other than Fauci and Brix, to talk about what they are actually DOING and RESULTS of some of these hopeful drugs as they are being tried. I don’t mind if it is something like this – we gave drug x to y amount of people on date z and who is getting better, worse or unchanged. Also how many are in hospital beds and been released would be helpful. How long was there stay of those released and what condition were they in? I’m not suggesting false hope be doled out but I think being more informed would be helpful about other areas.

It has been uplifting to see what companies and people are DOING, have DONE and will be DOING to pitch in and help with this horrible situation. We still have some wonderful people in our country. As always a crisis will bring out the worst and best in people. I feel terrible for those who are alone where ever they are enduring this madness.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

…rodents?

muslims are not critters! …maybe.

tatka150
tatka150
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

It looks like Dr. Fauci’s main job is to figure out if we need the face masks or not(sick) Since it’s not obvious at this point (and it was obvious 2 months earlier as well). They’ve been pulling everyone’s legs with the ridiculous explanations why we don’t need the face masks in the middle of pandemic. The reason we don’t need it, because we don’t have it. Even hospitals don’t have enough. Not even close. So these bastards should be honest and tell people in the beginning of the nightmare to try to get it or make it themselves. I never believe these lairs, and purchased 100. I wish I will buy more, but they were expensive already (it was in the beginning of March). There is nothing now on Amazon. I wish Trump will kick out these both skunks with their idiotic “models” and diagrams, and call real doctors, not 2 smart-ass cabinet bureaucrats. Fauci is definitely in the pocket of Big Pharma. It’s so obvious! They both make me noxious.

Rance Muhammitz
Rance Muhammitz
3 years ago

Thank God. I was worried about rodents with coronavirus.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

I’d imagine Israel has a very sophisticated bio-terrorism/bio-weapons bureau-department somewhere, because islamic terrorism is a constant menace to Israelis. It would be interesting to find out if they think COVID-19 is a virus engineered by our ChiCom pals.

stephen5970
stephen5970
3 years ago

If Israel does come up with a vaccine the world will still hate Israel and Jews. Its the way of the world.

Muslim nations have stated that they will refuse an Israeli vaccine. No one will be forcing them to use it.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

The Jewish people have always contributed so much more than their numbers to Western Civilization, including Our Savior Jesus Christ and all of the Apostles. They continue to this very day making our lives better and for this, we Christians must be eternally grateful.

john53
john53
3 years ago

Testing on Rats would be a direct correlation to using this treatment on liberal Democrats in America, great idea even if it doesn’t work on real human beings.

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