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One user recalled their own Syrian hamster, who lived to 3.5 years old.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025 Share [Findings] Convalescent plasma helps Syrian hamsters fight SARS-CoV-2.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025 Early in vivo trials on Syrian hamster models found that those treated with COV44-79 recovered from moderate to severe symptoms within 3-7 days, and those treated with COV44-62 recovered in 5-7 days.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
1 Aug. 2022 To design a new potential Covid treatment, researchers at the Rosalind Franklin Institute at Oxford University took advantage of the biological quirks of an unlikely animal pair: the llama and the Syrian hamster.—
Grace Huckins,
Wired,
29 Sep. 2021