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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 19, 2017, 08:56:28 am
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Frog snot gives hope for flu cure
Henry Bodkin
18 April 2017 • 4:45pm
The mucus of a rare frog that lurks in the South Indian jungle could provide the basis of a powerful new class of drugs to combat influenza, scientists have said.
The bright orange tennis ball-sized Hydrophylax bahuvistara was found to contain “host defence peptides” that proved able to destroy numerous strains of human flu, whilst protecting normal cells.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/18/frog-snot-gives-hope-flu-cure/