Abstract
In a double-blind comparison of the therapeutic effect of amantadine in a natural outbreak of Hong Kong influenza in January 1969 near Houston, Texas, the decrease in titers of virus in throat swabs from 12 treated patients during the first 10 hr of treatment was appreciably greater than similar titers of virus from 16 untreated patients (P = 0.06). The titer of shed virus decreased significantly more rapidly (P < 0.05) among amantadine-treated patients ill more than 48 hr before treatment than among five control patients who had been ill more than 48 hr. Cough, sore throat, and nasal obstruction cleared more rapidly in treated patients (P < 0.05), and decline of fever in 6 treated patients sick for less than 48 hr before treatment was more rapid than among 13 untreated patients who had been ill for less than 48 hr. These findings are considered to be consistent with a limited therapeutic effect of the drug.
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