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Experimental Ebola Drug Cures Monkey by Jhosh(m): 5:30pm On Sep 01, 2014
Abuja - An experimental Ebola drug healed all 18
monkeys infected with the deadly virus in a study,
boosting hopes that the treatment might help fight the
outbreak raging through West Africa — once more of it can
be made.
The monkeys were given the drug, ZMapp, three to five
days after they were infected with the virus and when most
were showing symptoms. That is several days later than
any other experimental Ebola treatment tested so far.
The drug also completely protected six other monkeys
given a slightly different version of it three days after
infection in a pilot test. These two studies are the first
monkey tests ever done on ZMapp.
"The level of improvement was utterly beyond my honest
expectation," said one study leader, Gary Kobinger of the
Public Health Agency of Canada in Winnipeg.
"For animal data, it's extremely impressive," said Dr.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, which had a role in the work.
It's not known how well the drug would work in people,
who can take up to 21 days to show symptoms and are
not infected the way these monkeys were in a lab.
Several experts said it's not possible to estimate a
window of opportunity for treating people, but that it was
encouraging that the animals recovered when treated even
after advanced disease developed.
The study was published online by the journal Nature.
Testing ZMapp
ZMapp had never been tested in humans before two
Americans aid workers who got Ebola while working in
Africa were allowed to try it. The rest of the limited supply
was given to five others.
There is no more ZMapp now, and once a new batch is
ready, it still needs some basic tests before it can be tried
again during the African outbreak, Fauci said. "We do
need to know what the proper dose is" in people and that
it's safe, he said.
Ebola has killed more than 1,500 people this year and the
World Health Organisation says there could be as many as
20,000 cases before the outbreak is brought under
control. Ebola has now spread to a fifth African country –
Senegal – where a university student who travelled there
from Guinea was being treated.
There is no approved vaccine or specific treatment, just
supportive care to keep them hydrated and nourished.
Efforts have focused on finding cases and tracking their
contacts to limit the disease, which spreads through
contact with blood and other fluids.
ZMapp is three antibodies that attach to cells infected
with Ebola, helping the immune system kill them.

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