What if you could just chew to neutralize flu viruses and herpes in over 95%? A team of investigators believes it is possible.
An elastic tablet made of lablab beans It may be the next major tool to combat viral transmission. Thus believe the authors of one published in Molecular Therapy In January.
All because this beans, the Lablab purpureus naturally contains an antiviral trap protein (fril), which was tested to neutralize Two Herpes Simplex viruses (HSV-1 in HSV-2) in two flu strains (H1N1 and H3N2).
And chewing gum is even the best format to insert the fril in viral infection sites. According to investigators, 40 milligrams inserted in 2 gram tablet is enough to reduce viral loads by 95%.
“These observations are a good augurium to evaluate bean gum in human clinical studies to minimize virus infection/transmission,” scientist Henry Daniell tells.
This team had already proved in an earlier that a similar approach was effective in reducing the Sars-COV-2 virus in samples of saliva or zaragatoas from patients with COVID-19.
Now, researchers are trying to apply the same recipe to combat Flu of birds. But long -term goal is even a simple elastic tablet being able to help fight a future pandemic.
The researcher says that “virus transmission control remains a major global challenge. Long -spiral antiviral protein (fril) Present in a natural food product (bean dust) to neutralize not only human flu viruses but also bird flu is an opportune innovation to prevent infection and transmission. ”
