Apparently the first ever effective Ebola virus treatment has been found

[Kristian Nebula]

So I bumped into this on today:

 

"Scientists have said they are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the Ebola virus after two potential drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90 percent in a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two experimental drugs - Regeneron's REGN-EB3 and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 - were both developed using antibodies harvested from survivors of Ebola infection. They showed better results in patients in a trial of four potential treatments being conducted during the world's second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, now entering its second year in the DRC.

"Moving forward, these are the only drugs that future patients will be treated with," the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement released on Monday."

 

Whole article can be read here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/scientists-hail-promise-effective-ebola-treatments-190812182009734.html

[Murdoch]

Very cool.

[Eurisko]

Fantastic news. Good stuff.