A group of international scientists found that penicillin therapy can reduce the risk of rheumatic heart disease in children and adolescents.. This is stated in an article by scientists published in The New England Journal of Medicine.. This is a terrible disease from which about 306 thousand people die every year in the world.. The GOAL study enrolled 818 Ugandan children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17 with a diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease. They were divided into two groups. Some were given injections of benzathine benzylpenicillin every four weeks for two years, others nothing.

The ultrasound scan showed that three out of 399 participants in the experimental group had complications of rheumatic heart disease.. " Recall that scientists have found that penicillin changes not only the microbiota in newborns, but also the expression of genes in key areas of the brain, if they are used at an early age Chinese scientists have invented an inhaled vaccine against COVID News from Telegram. Subscribe to our channel https: // t. me / korrespondentnet Author: 1.