Australia / 04/03/2020 15:36:35
The whole world is still in crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic which has left thousands of deaths, yet the medical staff keep fighting and now the good news comes from Australia, since a group of specialists, epidemiologists and scientists have discovered a drug capable of killing the new coronavirus in 48 hours.
This is a study done by the Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) of the Monash University in Melbourne and the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity, which after a couple of weeks of testing, confirmed that the drug employee was able to end the virus in two days.
“We have found that even a single dose could kill all viral RNA within 48 hours and that, in addition, at 24 hours there is a really significant reduction “, declared the researchers for the journal Antiviral Research.
THE HOPE
The name of the medication is ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that is regularly used with positive results ‘in vitro’ in others virus As the dengue, Zika or flu.
Until now, the tests done are merely in the laboratory, the next step will be to perform them on animals and later on people, although according to specialists, there are no dates or estimates of when they can be carried out.
”It is considered a safe medication. We now need to determine if the dose can be used in humans and what will be effective. Right now when we have a global pandemic and there is no approved treatment, if we had a compound that was already available worldwide. Realistically, it will be a while before a widely available vaccine is applied“The experts said.
The next step to Ivermectin’s effectiveness against # COVID19 demonstrated by Australian researchers in cell culture would be to determine the effective and safe dose in vivo pic.twitter.com/3rQeDeviT4
– Susana Romero (@ry_susana) April 3, 2020
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* With information from La Vanguardia
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