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  • The Frog Slime Cure for Flu

    04/21/2017 1:01:53 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 17 replies
    NBC News ^ | 18 April 2017 | Maggie Fox
    compound found in the protective slime of an Indian frog blows apart flu viruses and might become a powerful new drug to treat influenza, researchers reported Tuesday. The compound, a small structure called a peptide, cured mice of killer doses of human flu, the research team reported in the journal Immunity. hey hope to develop it and other compounds like it into antiviral drugs to treat people. "This peptide kills the viruses. It kind of blows them up," Joshy Jacob of Emory University, who led the study team, told NBC News. And it seems harmless to healthy tissue. "There's no...
  • With Few Suppliers of Flu Shots, Shortage Was Long in Making

    10/17/2004 12:15:21 PM PDT · by neverdem · 41 replies · 1,247+ views
    NY Times ^ | October 17, 2004 | DENISE GRADY
    This article was reported by Denise Grady, Lizette Alvarez, Gardiner Harris and Andrew Pollack and was written by Ms. Grady. Scene by disheartening scene, the spectacle of a severe shortage of flu vaccine is unfolding around the country. Last week, elderly and chronically ill people waited in line for hours to get flu shots; some were turned away. One died, after hitting her head when she passed out or fell while waiting. Price gougers demanded $800 for $60 vials of vaccine. States threatened to fine or jail doctors and nurses who gave shots to anyone not in the high-risk groups....