Posted on 09/03/2004 7:20:01 PM PDT by blam
'Malaria drug is effective against SARS'
September 03 2004 at 06:27PM
Brussels - The anti-malaria drug chloroquine could be used to treat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which killed hundreds of people last year, virologists at the Belgian Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) said on Friday.
A research team led by Professor Marc Van Ranst of KUL's Rega Institute for Medical Research found that chloroquine "is active against the SARS coronavirus in laboratory experiments".
"Chloroquine could be of great importance as preventive medication for people living in or travelling to SARS-affected areas, and as an antiviral treatment for SARS patients," the research team said in a statement.
Nearly 800 people died from SARS after it emerged in southern China in late 2002. It infected 8 000 people in nearly 30 countries, devastating airline and tourism industries.
China, the hardest hit country, declared it had conquered the outbreak in July 2003, but has reported several new cases this year.
They'd be shouting this from the rooftops if really true.
isn't sars 2 years old, not last year??? I can't remember anymore.
Ping.
If the title of this thread was "Marijuana Drug is Effective Against Hangnails" it would have had a couple of thousand hits by now.
As a 5 years user of chloroquine let me be the first to say WOOOHOOOOOO!!!
Just be careful because one of the drug's side effects is blindness when taken in doses exceeding 600mg/day.
Thanks for the ping...I can't imagine how this works, if it does...
I guess it is worth a try. We are heading to Chiang Mai on the 28th of this month (only 4 months late).
Take some chloroquine with you.
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