Word: foscarnet
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...they produce debilitating side effects, like kidney damage, which make them unsuitable for prolonged treatment. Among these drugs are HPA-23, a compound developed at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where Rock Hudson sought treatment; Suramin, originally used to treat such parasitic disorders as African sleeping sickness; and Foscarnet, a drug being tested in Sweden and Canada...
...around the country are testing another antiviral preparation, called Suramin, which was originally used to combat African sleeping sickness. Like HPA-23, the drug appears to stop the proliferation of the AIDS virus, but it does not necessarily improve the patient's condition. Other antiviral substances, including Ribavirin and Foscarnet, now being studied in Sweden and Canada, are in even earlier stages of investigation...
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