Although this is not a latest news, but i think i need to emphasis to everyone again since the bird flu strikes again in Malaysia. According to the news that published on Taipei Times (24 July2005), health officials said that extracts from algae could help immune systems fight the deadly avian flu virus after testing the technique on rabbits.
Researchers used a variety of algae for their research but found that chlorella and cryptomonadales grown in Taiwan had the best effects.
Although successful in their experiments with rabbits, they acknowledged that they have not tested the effects of the extracts on humans, because there have been no human cases of bird flu in Taiwan.
According to Prof. Su Yi-Jen, cryptomonadales has very high content of phycocianin and PPARs. (Peroxisomal Proliferator Activated Receptor). Prof. Su,who is an National Health Research Institute director in charge of clinical research, said that both the WHO and the disease control authorities of the US are trying to find herbs that contain these two elements, which could be used to control the activity of the virus. He claimed that if epidemic strikes, the algae extracts can be distributed as a substitute.
May be you will say that the experiments not yet done in human,but for me i think `SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING'
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