New HIV Infection Drug is Being Tested
A kind of new HIV drug which can stop one of the early stages of HIV infection and can become a new class of drugs to fight other harmful viruses, is now being tested by German scientists.
The drug, which is being developed by a private company in Hanover, VIRO Pharmaceuticals, it is called Vir-576 and reduce the number of HIV infections in the blood as much as 95 percent in the early stages of the experiment from 18 patients.
It works by preventing the virus to anchor themselves in human immune cells, said the researchers who published the study in the Science Translational Medicine journal. (more…)
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