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Gout Medicine Could Also Battle COVID-19 – FDA Approved and Has Potent Antiviral Properties
SciTechDaily.com ^ | 10 September 2021 | University of Georgia

Posted on 09/10/2021 5:10:42 AM PDT by zeestephen

Published in Nature's Scientific Reports, the study found that probenecid has broad antiviral properties, making it a prime candidate to combat not only SARS-CoV-2 infection but also other common and deadly respiratory viruses like RSV and flu. Probenecid is an FDA-approved medication that's primarily used to treat gout, and it's already widely available in the U.S. The drug has been on the market for over 40 years and has minimal side effects.

(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; gout; medicine; probenecid
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1 posted on 09/10/2021 5:10:42 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Have you not learned yet?

It is the jab or nothing.

We all live in China now.


2 posted on 09/10/2021 5:12:16 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Wait 6 months and it will be truth.)
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To: zeestephen

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12821454/

From 2003. This should have been a no-brainer for eggheads.

But it wasn’t for some reason.

Wonder why?


3 posted on 09/10/2021 5:13:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

But they still won’t authorize Ivermectin...


4 posted on 09/10/2021 5:15:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: zeestephen

Anything ready, cheap and effective will not be allowed. Have you been paying attention


5 posted on 09/10/2021 5:17:39 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: zeestephen
it's already widely available in the U.S. The drug has been on the market for over 40 years and has minimal side effects.

Well, now it's a scourge, and a killer, and no sane person would put it in their body.

6 posted on 09/10/2021 5:20:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: zeestephen

Can hardly wait until our FReeper Covidians weigh in on this...(do I really have to put a /s tag here?!)


7 posted on 09/10/2021 5:28:29 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: zeestephen
"Could." "Maybe." "Potentially."

What ever happened to scientific research? If it can be reproduced/duplicated in a laboratory setting, then it's verified. And wait until it's been verified before releasing the information to the public.

But with the internet, FR gets every crackpot rumbling, mumbling thought from around the globe.

8 posted on 09/10/2021 5:31:19 AM PDT by LouAvul (The common denominator among all liberals is their sociopathic personality quirks. )
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To: zeestephen

Well, are people on this drug less susceptible to the china flu? IOW, is it already working on them and preventing illness?


9 posted on 09/10/2021 5:32:29 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

”Didn’t you people learn your lesson with the horse de-wormer? Now, it’s goat medicine...”

10 posted on 09/10/2021 5:39:25 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

If they found Mylanta could treat Covid there would be an increase in untreated heartburn cause it would be pulled off the market in a week.


11 posted on 09/10/2021 5:41:01 AM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: mewzilla
Comment #3 has a link to a 2003 in vitro study involving chloroquine and probenecid (gout medicine).

"Resistance to drugs can result from changes in drug transport, and this resistance can sometimes be overcome by a second drug that modifies the transport mechanisms of the cell..."

"When probenecid (gout medicine) was tested with chloroquine, it chemosensitized the resistant isolate to chloroquine - i.e., enhanced the activity of chloroquine."

Thanks for posting, mewzilla!

12 posted on 09/10/2021 5:46:32 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: gundog

ROTFLOL!


13 posted on 09/10/2021 5:49:19 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Anything ready, cheap and effective will not be allowed. Have you been paying attention?
************
If we pretend that a Democrat invented it, it might get approved.


14 posted on 09/10/2021 5:50:16 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: LouAvul
Re: "FR gets every crackpot rumbling, mumbling thought from around the globe."

Here is the link to the rumbling mumbling thoughts from Nature.com:

"Probenecid inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication in vivo and in vitro"

10 September 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97658-w

15 posted on 09/10/2021 5:56:21 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: mewzilla

“But they still won’t authorize Ivermectin”

Because it works.

These bastards want this disease to continue. It is all about the power for the left. This is what the “Great Reset” looks like.


16 posted on 09/10/2021 6:24:47 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, consultant, pilot instructor, pharmacist , retired now)
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To: zeestephen

17 posted on 09/10/2021 6:26:13 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: zeestephen

Never heard of them.


18 posted on 09/10/2021 6:32:12 AM PDT by LouAvul (The common denominator among all liberals is their sociopathic personality quirks. )
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To: AdmSmith

pong


19 posted on 09/10/2021 6:38:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: jeffc
Well, are people on this drug less susceptible to the china flu? IOW, is it already working on them and preventing illness?

Can only give allegorical.

My uncle had the WuFlu. His wife never caught it even through she technically should have since she was the one in closest contact with him.

She does take this drug.

Then again my husband never caught it from me and he does not take this drug.

Make of that what you will.

20 posted on 09/10/2021 6:40:58 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I refuse to be afraid. I refuse to bow. I refuse to take any job I do not wish to. So BUZZ OFF!)
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