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Hopes of Covid breakthrough as Australian scientists develop antiviral injection to kill 99.9% of the virus in the lungs of mice – but it won't be ready for humans until 2023
Da ^ | 18 May 2021 | Levi Parsons

Posted on 05/19/2021 1:11:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Scientists have developed an antiviral drug that kills off 99.9 per cent of Covid particles in the lungs of mice.

The 'next-generation' treatment works like a 'heat-seeking missile' to detect the viral load and attack them.

It has been developed by a team of international experts from Australia's Menzies Health Institute Queensland at Griffith University.

The treatment, given via an injection, works by using a medical technology called gene-silencing that was first discovered in Australia during the 1990s.

Gene-silencing utilises RNA - fundamental building blocks in the body, similar to DNA - to attack the virus.

Modified RNA was also used to develop the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines, shown to be up to 96 per cent effective at blocking the disease.

The new therapy has been designed for people who are already severely ill with Covid, for whom the vaccines are too late.

Co-lead researcher Professor Nigel McMillan from MHIQ said the groundbreaking treatment prevents the virus from replicating and may even put a stop to Covid-related deaths across the world.

'Essentially, it's a seek-and-destroy mission,' he said. 'We can specifically destroy the virus that grows in someone's lungs.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: covid19

1 posted on 05/19/2021 1:11:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The mice shall inherit the Earth.


2 posted on 05/19/2021 1:13:30 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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To: nickcarraway

You have to wonder what’s in the junk they’re shooting into people under the guise of a vaccine.


3 posted on 05/19/2021 1:16:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: nickcarraway
File this story under "flying cars".



4 posted on 05/19/2021 1:20:45 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: nickcarraway
IN THE LUNGS ......

But they won't call it influenza


Influenza is a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system — your nose, throat and lungs.

Influenza is commonly called the flu, but it's not the same as stomach "flu" viruses that cause diarrhea and vomiting.

For most people, the flu resolves on its own.

Dec 19, 2020

5 posted on 05/19/2021 1:23:52 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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To: SkyDancer

They really want to jab us! So suspect, when every outlet is adamantly for it.


6 posted on 05/19/2021 1:24:32 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: nickcarraway

Wut! You mean they are going to wait to see if it works!? With drug treatments that cut the death rate by 85% in the most vulnerable, I thought we had to just JAB away world-wide as soon as someone pencils in an idea for a treatment!

C’mon. Where are the threats to employment ‘needed’ to boost buy in?


7 posted on 05/19/2021 1:32:17 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: nickcarraway

Second software patch type in history.

What could possibly go wrong?

I’ll take it if I’m about dead, but otherwise ....


8 posted on 05/19/2021 1:36:35 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (GMO opponents who took the covid jab are now GMOs themselves.)
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To: nickcarraway

Cool, hope it’s a success.


9 posted on 05/19/2021 1:37:24 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: ransomnote

Any US $$$ funding the research?


10 posted on 05/19/2021 1:38:20 PM PDT by sanjuanbob (Do NOT buy Chinese Products)
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To: nickcarraway

...and the 0.1% that doesn’t die from the shot reproduces and then we have strain that is resistant to this antiviral.


11 posted on 05/19/2021 1:41:14 PM PDT by Edward Teach ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Does it kill the humans too?


12 posted on 05/19/2021 1:52:43 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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“…Gene-silencing utilises RNA - fundamental building blocks in the body, similar to DNA - to attack the virus.

Modified RNA was also used to develop the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines, shown to be up to 96 per cent effective at blocking the disease.

The new therapy has been designed for people who are already severely ill with Covid, for whom the vaccines are too late….

… ‘Essentially, it’s a seek-and-destroy mission,’ he said. ‘We can specifically destroy the virus that grows in someone’s lungs.’…”
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Hmmm….RNA? Gene-silencing? Seek-and-destroy mission? The Strange-Brew-Crew are gonna have conniptions with this. I’ll just say this will need considerable testing.


13 posted on 05/19/2021 2:14:35 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Probably what is called anti-sense oligonucleotides. It binds to a particular part of viral genome (specifically the nucleotide sequence) and inhibits the viral instructions from being read by virus assembling mechanism. Early idea for controlling cancer. If the nucleotide sequence binds to human nucleotide sequences it could interfere with human DNA information processing there also.
Look it up for much better explanation. Freegards.


14 posted on 05/19/2021 2:40:15 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: knarf

New study says that Covid is actually vascular, blood related. They say because the lungs has many tiny blood vessels is why it shows there first. Also possible the path of entry. They injected mice with just the spike protein and found that it damaged organs throughout the body including lungs, heart, brain and other organs. This is what we are seeing with the jabs. The mRNAs are based on producing that same spike protein.


15 posted on 05/19/2021 8:42:51 PM PDT by USAF80
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