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The Chinese are the world’s first medicine of swine influenza

Medics China the world’s first drug designed specifically for the treatment of influenza A (H1/N1).

According to “Vision”, the presentation ceremony, Director of the Beijing drug Management of Traditional Chinese Medicine Zhao Jing, inter alia, said: “To develop the drug, which lasted six months, brought hundreds of Chinese and foreign experts, has spent about 10 million yuan (about $1.5 million)”.

Medicines called “Jin Hua” ( “Golden Flower”) is based on the prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine involving Western experience. “A full course of receiving the” Golden Flower “lasting for five to seven days, two doses a day,” – noted by the group of drug developers Liu Qingquan, adding that “the patient is rapidly on the mend from the second day of admission drugs “.

Experts expect that the emergence of a new drug would eliminate the use of antibiotics in the treatment of swine influenza.

expected that the drug will do to the Chinese pharmacy shelves in January. Pre-marked price of the full course of medication is 80 yuan (about $12).

Participants of the presentation was reminded that China has also become the world’s first country to complete clinical trials of a vaccine against a new flu. The drug was tested more than 1,6 thousand volunteers in the age of three years. All patients appeared immune response, but in their blood were found antibodies that can resist the virus of swine influenza.