Insects contain very active protein compounds that can be used to discover a drug for COVID-19 , these insects either blood sucking or non blood sucking
Insects are polyphagous and can feed on leaves, shoots, flowers, fruit, seeds, stems, and bark.The majority of insects are either biting suckers (aphids, whitefly, thrips, etc.) or chewing insects (Grasshopper, weevil, etc.). Sucking biting insects (like mosquitoes ) can transmit diseases such as Plasmodium (causative agent of malaria). But can not transmit substances (proteins through their sucking action) to humans !!. Insect pests (mainly grinding insects) of forest species can consume huge amounts of allelochemicals (tannins, phenols, flavoinoides, coumarins, etc.) which are very interesting secondary metabolites. The problem is how to have these substances to synthesize drugs against COvid 19. These substances can be extracted by grinding insects. But, this requires huge quantities of these insects, breeding, etc. Your question is very interesting and worth thinking about.
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Insects are polyphagous and can feed on leaves, shoots, flowers, fruit, seeds, stems, and bark.The majority of insects are either biting suckers (aphids, whitefly, thrips, etc.) or chewing insects (Grasshopper, weevil, etc.). Sucking biting insects (like mosquitoes ) can transmit diseases such as Plasmodium (causative agent of malaria). But can not transmit substances (proteins through their sucking action) to humans !!. Insect pests (mainly grinding insects) of forest species can consume huge amounts of allelochemicals (tannins, phenols, flavoinoides, coumarins, etc.) which are very interesting secondary metabolites. The problem is how to have these substances to synthesize drugs against COvid 19. These substances can be extracted by grinding insects. But, this requires huge quantities of these insects, breeding, etc. Your question is very interesting and worth thinking about.
Insect extracts have been used in folk medicine for treating various diseases such as arthritis, diabetes, ulcers, cancers etc. Developing insect products as potential medicinal drugs along with the development of molecular and biochemical techniques, it has become feasible to manipulate and bio engineer insect natural products into modern medicines. There is a bright future for insect derived medicines, and hopefully, drug for COVID-19 would be discovered from insect extracts, one day.
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