Lipitor, a medicine by Pfizer Inc., is used to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. However, a new research has found that these types of cholesterol reducing drugs also help patients with sepsis and pneumonia.
It has given a new hope to fight with bird flu deaths. David Fedson, former director of European medical affairs for Sanofi-Aventis, said that medical experimental evidences have given the positive indication that statins may be helpful in the conditions posing by bird flu virus.
Most importantly, these drugs are cheaper than Tamiflu, the first choice and suggested medicine by WHO to restrict avian flu spread.
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