World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-30
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[0:00] Going to our newsroom.
[0:02] >> [music]
[0:08] >> On World News Tonight this Tuesday, is
[0:11] it a giant step for mankind? They are
[0:13] getting closer to a cure for the common
[0:15] cold.
[0:16] >> And this was like, I have a cold. Now I
[0:18] don't have a cold. It's gone.
[0:20] >> Another big step for Microsoft, closer
[0:23] to controlling important internet
[0:25] technology.
[0:27] And in our series about men, step
[0:29] lively. You may be getting older, but
[0:32] you could be getting better.
[0:35] >> [music]
[0:36] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:40] with Peter Jennings.
[0:41] >> Good evening. We're going to begin
[0:42] tonight with a very real notion today
[0:44] that medical science may be moving in on
[0:46] a cure for the common cold. There are
[0:48] still ifs, buts, and maybes,
[0:50] but medical researchers at a conference
[0:52] in Toronto did say today they have
[0:53] developed the first drug that may
[0:56] eventually cure one of the most
[0:57] persistent forms of the common cold. The
[1:00] researchers used a nasal spray to attack
[1:03] the cold virus itself. Our medical
[1:06] editor Tim Johnson is with us tonight,
[1:08] and he says there's hope. Tim.
[1:11] >> Allison Keller is a healthy American who
[1:13] agreed to be part of the study. A live
[1:16] strain of rhinovirus, the virus
[1:18] responsible for 40% of all colds, was
[1:20] put into her nose.
[1:22] >> Two days after I'd been in um
[1:24] quarantine, I started to have a sore
[1:27] throat and stuffy head, and knew I was
[1:30] getting a cold.
[1:31] >> But 24 hours later, her symptoms had
[1:34] disappeared with no side effects. She
[1:36] credits the new drug.
[1:38] >> Normally when you take something for a
[1:39] cold, you know, it'll relieve the
[1:41] symptoms, but you sti