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An experimental oral antiviral drug completely suppressed coronavirus transmission within 24 hours, according to a new study.
The drugs, called molnupiravir, prevent the virus from multiplying and spreading throughout the body.
The researchers found that the drug prevented the ferrets infected with COVID-19 from spreading the disease among themselves, but those who weren’t given the drug spread the disease.
The Georgia State University team says if the data can be transferred to humans, it means COVID-19 patients given the treatment could not become infectious within a day.
The researchers infected six ferrets with coronavirus and treated three of them with the experimental antiviral drug molnupiravir. They then took in two uninfected ferrets with one sick animal each
After eight days of daily testing, none of the ferrets caged (blue bar) with animals treated with the drug (blue bar) became ill
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