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Imagine if you could reach for a nasal spray and reduce your raging winter flu to a slight sniffle and a mild cough. It's a scenario that may no longer be pure fantasy.
Australian and international scientists have developed a prototype drug that's had a staggering effect on sickness levels in mice infected with cold and flu viruses.
"With this test drug, we were able to almost abolish the load of the virus in the lung tissue, compared to an uninfected control," says one of the drug's developers, Dr Stavros Selemidis, from Melbourne's RMIT University.
"It was a staggering reduction of over 90 per cent in the viral load, or burden, of the virus. Lung inflammation was down by over 80 per cent."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...k=16a3bbf393990c1ea35fcd796e20409f-1499875486
Australian and international scientists have developed a prototype drug that's had a staggering effect on sickness levels in mice infected with cold and flu viruses.
"With this test drug, we were able to almost abolish the load of the virus in the lung tissue, compared to an uninfected control," says one of the drug's developers, Dr Stavros Selemidis, from Melbourne's RMIT University.
"It was a staggering reduction of over 90 per cent in the viral load, or burden, of the virus. Lung inflammation was down by over 80 per cent."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...k=16a3bbf393990c1ea35fcd796e20409f-1499875486