Reasonable Rascal
03-20-02, 12:56
Washington Post
March 20, 2002
David Brown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52959-2002Mar19.html
“A researcher has developed an oral drug that appears to be active against smallpox virus, the most dreaded potential agent of biological terrorism. The drug is an altered form of an antiviral medicine that now must be given intravenously. A pill would make large-scale treatment possible in the event smallpox, which was eradicated in 1977,
reappears…. The new compound, hexadecyloxypropyl-cidofovir (HDP-CDV),
appears to be more effective than the intravenous form, cidofovir, because cells absorb it more readily. It inhibits smallpox virus replication at concentrations one-hundredth of what is required when the
intravenous form is used.”
March 20, 2002
David Brown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52959-2002Mar19.html
“A researcher has developed an oral drug that appears to be active against smallpox virus, the most dreaded potential agent of biological terrorism. The drug is an altered form of an antiviral medicine that now must be given intravenously. A pill would make large-scale treatment possible in the event smallpox, which was eradicated in 1977,
reappears…. The new compound, hexadecyloxypropyl-cidofovir (HDP-CDV),
appears to be more effective than the intravenous form, cidofovir, because cells absorb it more readily. It inhibits smallpox virus replication at concentrations one-hundredth of what is required when the
intravenous form is used.”