February 15, 2008

Boosting the body’s anti virus defences

It is a well known fact that the more medicines that you take the less chance there is that your body will produce the natural anti virus defences needed to fight against the different types of Flu and other illnesses that have the potential to kill.

However researchers from the McGill University in Canada have been working on creating a process that could possibly boost the body’s immune system into producing those vital natural anti virus defences, this has the potential to make the body virtually immune to the likes of Flu etc.

The work has only been done within the confines of the lab, and it is believed that the success that the team has achieved cannot be replicated within the human body, but it could lead to a treatment which could go on to save thousands of lives.

Source [BBC News]