Antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission

My innate immune system is here for chewing gum and binding viral glycans, and I’m all out of specific lectins.

Looks like this works by apparently binding complex N-glycans on the viral envelope. I can’t imagine this is particularly specific, but the good news is that in the mucosa, you should see relatively few N-glycans, so I guess it will hit the right stuff?

That has to be one of the best comments I've read on here in a while.. a nice chuckle for the morning.

Original source of the 37-year-old "chew gum" meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso&t=1s