Universal Flu Drug Stops All Flu Types
March 3rd, 2009‘Antibody Cocktail’ Would Protect Against Pandemic or Seasonal Flu
A new rather highly active antiretroviral therapy kills all types of flu bugs and dismissed flu.
“I certainly consider that a therapy for completely kinds of influenza perchance within our grasp,” analyze researcher Robert Liddington, DPhil, managing director of infective diseases at the Burnham Institute Catholic Reaction Force Jolla, CA., said at a press conference announcing the finding.
The treatment is supported fresh monoclonal antibodies that aggress grippe viruses in a dealt Achilles heel. Of the many different subtypes of grippe, at that place are only two basic patterns for this vulnerable, essential break by the flu virus.
And despite epic efforts, researchers coulded resistant to the discourse — suggesting that at that place only a very small chance that mutated viruses couldedhe breakthrough finding are an joint effort from labs at the Burnham Institute; Dana-Farber Crab Institute in Beantown; and the CDC inch Atlanta.
As if many breakthroughs, the finding was partly accidental. The investigators baffled first, trying only to make an treatment to arrest the H5N1 bird flu virus, the most expected nominee for igniting the next cosmopolitan flu epidemic.
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