Canadian scientists have created a treatment for the Ebola virus that has saved the lives of monkeys days after they were infected, the Xinhua News Agencyreported on Wednesday.
Ebola hemorrhagic feveris one of the most deadly and contagious diseases known to exist in nature. The lack of adequate vaccines and antidotes for the virus have made it a serious worry for biodefense specialists concerned about its possible applications as a biological weapon.
Individuals carrying the virus can die less than a week after being infected or three to four days after first displaying symptoms -- which include a skin rash, red eyes, internal and external bleeding, and diarrhea. That does not leave much time for the administration of life-saving medical countermeasures.
"For this reason, such treatment has been considered by many to be closer to the domain of science fiction than contemporary scientific research," lead study author Qiu Xiangguo of the Canadian Public Health Agency said in an interview.
Qiu and his colleagues administered their new combination therapy treatment, which contains three different antibodies and a special disease-fighting molecule called interferon alpha, to monkeys that had been exposed to Ebola. The combination treatment was 75 percent and 100 percent effective in saving infected monkeys, which had been exposed to Ebola three days earlier.
The antibodies are "like three little but powerful missiles" that go after three separate components of the disease, according to Qiu.
The scientists' findings were released in theScience Translational Medicinejournal. A Phase 1 safety trial to try out the new treatment on humans provisionally has been planned for late 2014 or early 2015.

http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/new-treatment-may-cure-ebola-days-after-infection/

I think African should go for this

This is new

I think by now all these countries or scientists should've listened to "Bracket ft Psquare" when they sang NO TIME. So please NO TIME for delay, the test for drugs starts from somewhere and since Una (scientists) claim say Africans and monkeys have alot in common, make Una send d drugs to Africa ASAP. I repeat again, NO TIME...

Isn't this TKM-Ebola? If yes. . . its been sent to WHO for use in Africa already.