{"id":874,"date":"2019-01-30T14:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:40:55","slug":"new-flu-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=874","title":{"rendered":"New Flu Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) is the first new antiflu medication to be developed in 20 years.\u00a0 It works by inhibiting Cap-dependent endonuclease, an enzyme essential for influenza virus to multiply itself.\u00a0 It is very effective and only requires a single oral dose to work.\u00a0 It is effective against both influenza A and B viruses.\u00a0 It does need to be taken within the first 48 hours of the flu to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>The only other drugs that are currently available to treat influenza are Tamiflu (taken orally for 5 days), Relenza (used trans nasally) and Rapivab (only available by IV for hospitalized patients).\u00a0 These drugs work on a different viral enzyme called neuraminidase.\u00a0 Because they have \u201cbeen around for a while\u201d some viral resistance is developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) is the first new antiflu medication to be developed in 20 years.\u00a0 It works by inhibiting Cap-dependent endonuclease, an enzyme essential for influenza virus to multiply itself.\u00a0 It is very effective and only requires a single oral dose to work.\u00a0 It is effective against both influenza A and B viruses.\u00a0 It does need to be taken within the first 48 hours of the flu to be effective. The only other drugs that are currently available to treat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=874\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-xofluza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}