New antiviral drug could cure nearly any viral infection – including the common cold

New antiviral drug could cure nearly any viral infection – including the common cold: "

While not delivering a knockout blow, the discovery of penicillin in 1928 provided a potent weapon in the fight against a wide range of bacterial infections. The quest to develop a similarly broad-spectrum drug to fight viral infections has proven more difficult but now researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory have designed a drug that has so far proven effective against all 15 viruses it has been tested on. These include rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, H1N1 influenza, a stomach virus, a polio virus, dengue fever and several other types of hemorrhagic fever...
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Section: Health and Wellbeing

Tags: Drugs,
H1N1,
Infections,
Influenza,
MIT,
Virus



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