Flu virus, meet frog slime.
A component of mucus — yum — from the skin of South Indian frogs can destroy the H1 variety of influenza viruses, a new study found.
Defensive compounds in frogs' skins were already known to protect the amphibians against bacteria. But those same compounds can also neutralize dozens of flu strains, scientists in the U.S. and India found.
The early findings, published Tuesday in the journal Immunity, might make it possible to harness frog mucus for fighting flu viruses when vaccines aren't available, or when strains become resistant to existing drugs. Read more...
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