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Anti-microbial Agent destroys Anthrax and Flu Virus with minimal impact to the body. Chemcial reaction binds to the outer coating and eats away membrane effectively destroying the virus.
http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9899/Sep30_98/22.htm "We learned several important things from these preliminary studies. The first is that BCTP is a highly effective killing agent for the influenza virus both at the cellular level and in living animals. Equally important is that BCTP had no toxic effects on nasal or lung membranes," Baker says. "We've shown that if we treat the virus with BCTP as it enters the nasal passages, we can prevent infection in mice. The next step is to see whether we can administer BCTP and the virus separately and still prevent infection. And the final step, of course, is to see whether it works as well in people as it does in mice." |
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The article you referenced was quite interesting. I noted that one of the research associates presented a paper at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. I looked at their conference planner and saw that there were several papers presented at the same conference relating to HIV, so I am sure that if this research has implications relating to HIV, there would have been people in attendance at his presentation that could make use of it. At the end of the article there is an e-mail address. You might want to pose your question directly to them for an answer.
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