{"id":975,"date":"2020-02-15T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=975"},"modified":"2020-05-04T22:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:00:23","slug":"chinese-doctors-are-using-cuban-antivirals-against-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/chinese-doctors-are-using-cuban-antivirals-against-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Interferon alfa 2B (IFNrec) : The Cuban medicine used in China against coronavirus. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec), an antiviral produced by the Cuban biotech industry, is being used by Chinese doctors to treat patients infected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which has affected more than 28,000 people and has killed 564 patients worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Jan. 25, the ChangHeber Company located in Changchun city has \nbeen producing the famous Cuban antiviral, which is one of 30 medicines \nchosen by the National Health Commission for its potential to cure \nrespiratory diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, IFNrec is applied against HIV-related infections, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, genital warts, and hepatitis types B and C. It is also effective in therapies against different types of cancer.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ChangHeber, Biotech, and Changchun Heber Biological Technology are \nthree companies that have joined forces within the framework of \nChinese-Cuban cooperation in the biotechnology sector, which has wide \nprospects for future economic growth.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Asian nation battles relentlessly against the coronavirus and \nits resulting pneumonia. In the absence of an effective vaccine, China \napplies to patients a combination of state-of-the-art antivirals and \nproducts from traditional medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese doctors are also testing new treatments by combining \nRemdesivir, which is used against Ebola, Ritonavir, which is used to \ntreat HIV\/AIDS infections, and Zavesca, which is effective in breaking \ndown certain lipids.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec), an antiviral produced by the Cuban biotech industry, is being used by Chinese doctors to treat patients infected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which has affected […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101012,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-cuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-biotech-industry-has-enough-antivirals-to-treat-covid-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":975,"position":0},"title":"Cuba biotech industry has enough antivirals to treat COVID-19","author":"Editorial Team","date":"March 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuba said on Friday it has enough reserves of an antiviral drug which has been used to treat COVID-19 in China to cover the island\u2019s demand and also that of other countries. 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