Could Galantamine help Poliomyelitis in India?
It has been reported, as recently as this month, that despite massive immunisation efforts, almost a third of all polio cases in the world occur in India.25 UK experts at Imperial College London have identified the main factors that let the virus rage there is poor sanitation and overcrowding.26 The latter is not something which in India with its spiralling population can be easily wiped out. Added to which, last year only 66 cases of polio were recoded in India, but there have been 522 cases so far this year!26 In a 2004, in a review by British Scientists on galanthamine for AD, it was stated: Of note, little is known about the early history of the drugs development. The review also points to other gaps in our knowledge about the enthopharmacology, pharmacology and clinical use of galanthamine.27 Hopefully, this may be a helpful clue or trigger to further investigations of galanthamines potential role to aid poliomyelitis sufferers. Lead researcher, Dr Nicholas Grassly, 28 in the late
