{"id":9158,"date":"2025-04-08T18:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:58:46","slug":"antiviral-chewing-gum-may-prevent-flu-and-herpes-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/08\/antiviral-chewing-gum-may-prevent-flu-and-herpes-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiviral Chewing Gum May Prevent Flu and Herpes Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideprecisionmedicine.com\/topics\/patient-care\/antiviral-chewing-gum-may-prevent-flu-and-herpes-transmission\/\">Precision Medicine<\/a> Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s (UPenn) School of Dental Medicine and their collaborators in Finland report they have developed chewing gum made from lablab beans that was effective at neutralizing both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideprecisionmedicine.com\/?s=influenza\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"influenza, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">influenza<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideprecisionmedicine.com\/?s=herpes+simplex+virus\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"herpes simplex virus, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">herpes simplex virus<\/a>&nbsp;(HSV) transmission. The study,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/molecular-therapy-family\/molecular-therapy\/fulltext\/S1525-0016(24)00808-6?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1525001624008086%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"published in&nbsp;Molecular Therapy, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in&nbsp;<em>Molecular Therapy<\/em><\/a>, shows the promise of this method as a new tool to help mitigate the spread of infection through the oral cavity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese observations augur well for evaluating bean gum in human clinical studies to minimize virus infection\/transmission,\u201d said co-lead author Henry Daniell, PhD, a professor at UPenn\u2019s School of Dental Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insideprecisionmedicine.com\/topics\/patient-care\/antiviral-chewing-gum-may-prevent-flu-and-herpes-transmission\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"hjqSA\">hjqSA<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision Medicine Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s (UPenn) School of Dental Medicine and their collaborators in Finland report they have developed chewing gum made from lablab beans that was effective at neutralizing both&nbsp;influenza&nbsp;and&nbsp;herpes simplex virus&nbsp;(HSV) transmission. The study,&nbsp;published in&nbsp;Molecular Therapy, shows the promise of this method as a new tool to help mitigate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9159,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions\/9159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}