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Human breast milk could help prevent coronavirus, game-changing new study finds
coronavirus, a game-changing new study has found.Scientists in Beijing have been testing the effect of human milk on cells exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ranging from animal kidney cells to human lung and gut cells.The milk, which was collected long before the pandemic in 2017, killed most living virus strains, they claim.The human breast milk was "blocking viral attachment, entry and even post-entry viral replication," the team, led by Professor Yigang Tong from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, wrote in two non-peer-reviewed papers posted on biorxiv.org last week.The findings are even more astounding because breastfeeding had previously been thought to increase the risk of viral transmission.