By James Gallagher BBC Ebola virus genetics The only clinical trial data on the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp shows it is 100% effective in monkey studies, even in later stages of the infection. The researchers, publishing their data in Nature, said it was a “very important step forward”. Yet the limited supplies will not help
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Ch-aviation ASKY Airlines (KP, Lomé) has suspended its flights to the Guinean capital, Conakry, effective immediately. In a statement, the Ethiopian Airlines (ET, Addis Ababa) subsidiary said the worsening Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa had forced the airline to take drastic action. “The Ebola virus continues to spread in the sub-region forcing many states in Africa to close their air
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BBC Medecins Sans Frontieres says the outbreak will take at least six months to bring under control Kenyan officials say the country is closing its borders to travellers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in response to the deadly Ebola outbreak. Kenya’s health secretary said Kenyans and medical workers flying in from those states would
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The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK The doctor who had been leading Sierra Leone’s battle against the Ebola outbreak was now fighting for his own life, and his international colleagues faced a fateful decision: whether to give him a drug that had never before been tested on people. Would the drug, known as ZMapp, help the stricken
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Drugs A vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus could become a reality in less than a year, one expert says. As the death toll in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa nears 1,000, several groups of scientists are racing to produce a vaccine to protect against the disease. And the developer of one of these
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