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04/23/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Better than pharma: Frog mucus found to kill influenza strains

A cure for the flu might be found in frogs, new study claims. Researchers from the United States have uncovered the bacteria-fighting peptides in the mucus secreted by the Hydrophylax bahuvisatra frog, an amphibian native to the Kerala region of southern India. Though frog mucus is known to be full of molecules that kill viruses […]

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