The Oldest Monkey On Earth Can Be The Key To Kill HIV For Good

Dhir Acharya - Dec 18, 2018

Rhesus, the oldest monkey on Earth can help us to completely stop HIV, saving human lives.

It looks like we have to go back to the starting point so as to fix some of the deadly diseases that have appeared because of our carelessness. And among the most debilitating conditions is HIV, which scientists haven’t found any way to completely cure.

However, that’s about to change.

According to ANI, Rhesus, the world oldest monkeys can help us generate neutralizing antibodies to fight one HIV strain which resembles the most popular resilient viral form infecting humans.

Researchers found out that they could prevent animals from getting infected with HIV by injecting them with antibodies which neutralized the virus.

Rhesus monkey

Researcher Dennis Burton said that vaccination has generated neutralizing antibodies able to protect animals against several kinds of viruses which look like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The researchers published this study in the Journal of Immunity, in which there are proofs of how we can potentially treat HIV with this new approach.

In the study paper, the scientists point out specific areas in the human body that are easily affected by HIV as well as claim that neutralizing antibodies is the key to put a stop to this virus.

Burton added that the researchers also estimate the proper number of neutralizing antibodies that we need to inject into the human body for fighting the HIV.

Human immunodeficiency virus, aka HIV, is a lentivirus which is a subgroup of the retrovirus. When humans are infected with this virus, their immune systems operation fail, and over time, they will get acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). At the stage of AIDS, the failing immune systems make humans vulnerable and exposed to deadly diseases like cancers.

For years, scientists have worked to treat HIV and, we have got several types of medicine produced. However, there haven’t been any absolute way for curing HIV patients, current medications can only lengthen their lifetime and patients have to rely on drugs to continue to live.