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Four experimental treatments for Ebola were sent to the region: ZMapp, which was tried in West Africa; GS-5734, an antiviral drug; and two monoclonal antibodies, REGN-EB3 and Ma b114.
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Influenza viruses developed resistance long ago to the first two antiviral flu drugs, amantadine and rimantadine.
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The National Institute on Aging, which helped fund the new research, is working to back another study to test the effects of antiviral drugs on people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s with high levels of herpes virus in their brains.
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But in people treated with antiviral drugs, that risk was reduced by 90 percent.
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Also among the experimental treatments that have shown some promise is favipiravir, a broad-spectrum antiviral drug, one that is intended to treat a range of viruses.
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There is currently no antiviral drug for Ebola licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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There’s no specific antiviral medication designed to treat hepatitis A, Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease specialist in Akron, Ohio, and an associate professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University, tells SELF.
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There are two other drugs being considered for use in the outbreak — an antiviral called Remdesivir being developed by Gilead and a Japanese influenza antiviral known as favipiravir, which was tested in the West African outbreak.
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First Known Use of antiviral
1929
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The company, which is not abandoning research into tropical diseases such as malaria, is looking to license its early-stage products and stressed that its Sandoz generics unit continues to manufacture and sell antibiotics and antivirals.
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There are antibiotics, including the powerful medication Ciprofloxacin, vaccines for smallpox and anthrax and antivirals for a deadly influenza pandemic.
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But the development of more effective antivirals for people who have already been infected is a key element of fighting influenza, too.
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Researchers are going to be taking data on this deployment of rVSV-Zebov, as well as looking at other even more experimental therapies—the antibody drug ZMapp and the antivirals favipiravir and GS-5734.
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Inside, there are antibiotics, vaccines for smallpox and anthrax, and antivirals for a deadly flu pandemic.
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So Xofluza and other RNA polymerase inhibitors represent a new approach to flu antivirals.
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New drugs called direct-acting antivirals can cure the disease with fewer side effects than previous treatments.
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Jimerson said that her husband wasn't given direct-acting antivirals.
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First Known Use of antiviral
1959
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