France’s state health institute, Inserm, is in talks with Guinea authorities on the first clinical trials of experimental Ebola therapies to be used on patients in the West African country.
Inserm is considering two trials, each involving at most 15 patients, to test compounds from Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (4901) and Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. (TKMR), said Jean-Francois Delfraissy, director of Inserm’s Institute of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Discussions with Guinea officials began this week and no decision has been made, he said.
“We are at the stage of starting to talk with authorities, to see whether this can potentially be done, for patients who don’t have too many symptoms yet,” Delfraissy said in a telephone interview yesterday.
Inserm’s possible trials would add to the race to develop treatments for Ebola, which has infected more than 3,000 people and killed more than 1,550 in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria in this outbreak. The epidemic is on pace to kill more people than all previous Ebola outbreaks combined, and the World Health Organization declared it a global health emergency, that could eventually infect 20,000.
Senegal reported its first case yesterday, a 21-year-old college student from Guinea. The country is now the fifth in West Africa to confirm the presence of Ebola. A separate, unrelated outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week.
Scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center plan to begin enrolling patients next week in an early-stage trial of GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s experimental Ebola vaccine. Another experimental drug made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., ZMapp, has been used to treat health workers who fell ill while caring for Ebola patients.

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Been hammering about T-705 (favipiravir) and Tekmira but our dumb govt keep waiting to the ever illusive Zmapp. I don't get these mor0ns.

Antell95:

Its alright if you don't have the mental capacity to comprehend. Only a select few do.

phreakabit:
Its alright if you don't have the mental capacity to comprehend. Only a select few do.

Who had time to read shit

m*m*

Antell95:

Who had time to read shit

m*m*

I weep for you. . . . If you are an adult.

phreakabit:

I weep for you. . . . If you are an adult.

weep for your generation. he-c*w