China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), ground zero for the worldwide Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, has offered to help India contain an outbreak of the dangerous Nipah virus, even as Indian officials claim the outbreak is coming under control.
Researchers at the WIV claim they have developed a treatment for Wuhan coronavirus, an orally-administered anti-viral drug called VV116, that is also a “promising candidate for treating the Nipah virus.”
The study that made this claim involved tests of VV116 with golden hamsters, whose survival rate for the deadly Nipah virus was said to increase by over 66 percent. The drug noticeably reduced the viral loads in the lungs, spleen, and brains of the test subjects, offering some protection for three of the vital
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