Can Bees sting the Corona Virus?

These days when the world’s leading vaccine makers , microbiologists and literally everyone are trying their very best to eliminate this global threat,even a single ray of hope is like an oasis for the lost traveler.

Bees play a vital role in pollination around the globe, they can also help in defeating our biggest foe.

Venom against Virus

It’s not a spider-man comic title by the way!

Animal or insect venom and their derivatives are the potential natural agents for innovative drug development against several major diseases, however many of their components and functions are fully unexplored.

Animal Venom has been used in the medical field from a very long time, whether its snake venom to create antivenom for snake bites or insect venom to fight against diseases like Herpes and Influenza etc.

Bee Venom is a cocktail of natural peptides with a diversity of biological activities.

Bee Venom is already used in a lot of medicinal applications, for rheumatoid arthritis etc. but recently, researchers have grown their interest towards its action against viruses.

A research paper published in December 2016, The Journal of Microbiology by Md Bashir Uddin, Byeong-Hoon Lee, Chamilani stated that the bee venom contains 18 components with medicinal use including melittin (MLT), phospholipase A2 (PLA2), and apamin etc.