Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The Summary about an Experimental Ebola Drug

For find a treatment for Ebola drug. There was a new study had shown that monkey got drug were survival. The first person with this drug was treated in the US. However, to keep safety, more people with Ebola should be treated.
Form this experiment,the incubation period for human is about 21 days, it is longer than monkey. The professor said zmapp is a good thing for people to treat it, but it has a huge loss for people's liver.  Zmapp is a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies.
The Ebola drug is one of the most serious drugs, the fatality rates are up 90 % . Develop zmapp is a huge successful for people to treat this disease. This article was wrote by Thomas Geisbert. And also the LSHTM provide the most important evidence to show zmapp is the most useful way to treat it.

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