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Year of the Camelid

Year of the Camelid The UN has designated 2024 as the International Year of Camelids. Camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas and guanacos are an important source of livelihood for millions of families - most of them pastoralists - in dryland and mountainous rangeland ecosystems around the world. The Year is meant to raise the public's…

Llama antibodies reportedly reduce harmfulness of COVID-19, could be used as vaccine supplement and treatment agent

Researchers in Belgium said llama antibodies lessen the harmfulness of COVID-19, Reuters reported. What are the details? Antibodies were extracted from a llama — whose name is Winter — and the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology in Ghent said laboratory testing also revealed that variant virulence was curtailed, the outlet said. Dominique Tersago — chief…