Fresh hope appears in the horizon for Ebola patients as Japan on Monday expressed its readiness to provide its anti-influenza drug as treatment for the deadly virus.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, made the offer hours after a group of scientist in the United Kingdom said it had discovered that the largest outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease was caused by an infected fruit bat that bit a toddler.
Briefing journalists in Tokyo on Monday, Suga said Japan was ready to offer the drug, Favipiravir, which was developed by Toyama Chemical, a subsidiary of Fujifilm, any time the World Health Organisation requested it.
Approved by the Japanese health ministry in March, Favipiravir is a tablet developed for the treatment of novel and re-emerging influenza viruses.
Suga, according to the Agence France Presse, said Japan was waiting for WHO’s decision on further details over the use of untested drugs.


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Every country now jumping on the band wagon.
Feeding off our misery...
Africa, My Africa

Are we Now lab rats?

Madam abeg gimme 2shots of Agbo

Rubbish

Africa, always on the receiving end.

wherever the drugs after coming from be it hasp Japan, Sudan, Canada, etc, all I want is just the cure, there most be No further spread of this virus

Ebola... will come and go. it will be a thing of the past.

And so d competition continues...I hope my Aba brothers come up with theirs soon.