Who knew that horses could be so useful. New research has show that horse serum can potentially be used someday to treat people with the Bird Flu or (H5N1 virus). Researchers have tested this on mice and found that mice that were injected with the H5N1 virus that were also injected with horse serum that contained horse antibodies survived the virus. 100 percent of mice injected with only 100 microliters (about the size of the tip of a pencil) lived after being injected with the virus. As a control group, a group of infected mice were also injected with horse serum that did NOT have antibodies and within 9 hours all of those infected mice had died.
It is pretty cool to know that maybe after more research has been conducted, the serum from our own horses could potentially cure people of the nasty Bird Flu. The best thing about it is that all you have to do to get the antibodies is draw some blood from a horse. It doesn't affect or hurt the horse at all.
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