A New Therapy Found to Fight Against COVID-19

According to a study, published in Nature Communications, Scientists have found influenza virus infections that may effective against many other pathogenic virus infections, including HIV and COVID-19.

In an average year, more than two million people in the U.S are hospitalized and 30,000 to 80,000 of them die.

Phillip S. Low from Purdue University of U.S said, ' we target all of Antiviral Drugs to treat the diseased cells without harming healthy cells. With this, we deliver immune-activating drugs selectively into flu-infected cells '.

This therapy will prove its effectiveness against COVID-19 also.

This flu virus, like many other pathogenic virus, inject its proteins to its host cell and then buds off nascent viruses in the process of spreading to adjacent host cells.

Because, these exported proteins are not present in the surface of healthy cells, the research team has found the presence of the proteins in infected cells that targets drugs specifically virus-infected cells.

' We have chosen influenza virus to start with it, because our process works in influenza-infected mice that are inoculated with 100 times lethal dose of virus and the results can often be applied to other enveloped viruses ', said Low

The researchers noted that the new therapy may prove its effectiveness against pathogenic viruses like Hepatitis B, HIV and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).