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Found more effective than Tamiflu, the medicine

In Japan Open connection substances capable of, as the authors of scientific discovery, “very effectively deal with a new influenza virus A/H1N1″. This statement was made today by a group of scientists at Hokkaido University, headed by Professor Tadaaki Miyazaki, transmits Newsru.ua.

The researchers said they uncovered a combination of substances – lactic acid bacteria and one of types of polysaccharides (aureobasidiuma) – is “more effective than the commonly known drugs Tamiflu.

In their conclusions, scientists rely on the results of a series of experiments conducted on mice. Laboratory testing of a new drug, said Professor Miyazaki, “will ensure that the influenza-infected mice quickly overcome the consequences of disease and restored the weight”.

This discovery, noted in the Japanese medical circles, “could lead to the development of Japan’s new safe drugs for rapid treatment of patients infected with influenza A/H1N1″.

According to the local authorities, as a result of a new epidemic of influenza in Japan over the past few months have already died about 70 people, over 10 thousand Japanese people were hospitalized due to complications of diseases.