Amiksin or Lavomax in their maiden name was called Tiloron. He is already 50 years old, so many have forgotten.
Back in 1968, the American company Merrell Dow synthesized a small molecule that had an antiviral effect.
The little one was named Tiloron. Very soon, the molecule was forgotten, and the Merrell Dow company itself was subsequently crushed by the French giant Sanofi.
The point of Tilorone was that it increased the production of interferon and had an antiviral effect.
Time passed and Tiloron was reborn under the names Amiksin and Lavomax in the vastness of the former USSR.
It is used in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Interesting set, right? Fraternal republics. So, throughout this gigantic territory, Amiksin and Lavomax are sold in kilotons. Americans are so envious and write "kiloton".
What does the Americans have to do with it? Well, they are offended. The Americans came up with a medicine, and the former USSR is using it.
American interest in Tiloron was awakened after the latest outbreaks of Ebola in Africa. It would be very scary if the Ebola virus entered the United States. It's true?
And so the Americans began to study Tiloron again. It should be noted right away that Tiloron was never tested in accordance with all the rules for efficiency and safety. Now they give it to guinea pigs and watch them die or survive from the Ebola virus. They say that there is some effect, and not all animals die.
It also turned out that Tiloron acts in a test tube. This is completely incomprehensible. Well, that is, in the body, it can stimulate the production of interferon, but there is no body in the test tube. There are just individual cells. We decided that Tiloron has some other interesting antiviral properties.
In short, the Americans test it in a test tube and on guinea pigs. Sometimes the pigs die, and sometimes they survive. No conclusions have been drawn yet.
Americans would like to support the African population suffering from Ebola (and so that they do not bring this infection to the States).
Once they tested the drug on Russians with Uzbeks, why not treat them to the African population? We can never die. Something like this…
Would you like to be a guinea pig? They are funny.
