Secular Café: New weapon on the way against amoebic dysentery

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New weapon on the way against amoebic dysentery May 21st 2012, 11:17 Important for poorer countries if this works. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18117605 Quote: A cheap drug, which is already prescribed for arthritis, could fight amoebic dysentery, according to researchers in the US. They were testing old drugs to see if any killed the dysentery bug. Tests on animals, published in Nature Medicine, showed that auranofin was 10 times more effective than the best drug currently available. Further studies will be needed in humans, but researchers say it holds great promise. Amoebic dysentery is caused by Entamoeba histolytica, which infects the bowels. It results in severe diarrhoea including bloody stools. More than 70,000 people are thought to die from the disease each year - most are in developing countries.

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