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Research Communications in Chemical Pathology and Pharmacology 1989;66:425-40. * cited by examiner US 9,616,124 B2 1. 2 ANTIVIRAL SUPPLEMENT COMPOSITIONS CDC, the number of schooldays lost by kindergarten AND METHODS OF USE through 12th-grade students annually in the U.S. due to colds is about 22 million, and to flu about 38 million. Even CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED a 10% reduction in these losses would be highly significant APPLICATIONS and valuable. The present invention, if widely used, would allow a much greater reduction than this in both severity and Not applicable duration of colds and flu.