Cure For The Common Cold? Smallpox Drug May Also Target Some Upper-Respiratory Infections
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 21:29
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have made two key discoveries that could lead to the first-ever human testing of a drug to target the adenovirus, which causes a number of severe upper-respiratory infections and is one of many viruses that causes the common cold. There are currently no drugs approved specifically to treat adenovirus infections in large part because there has been no animal model in which to test drug candidates, a key prerequisite before testing in humans.
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