[PA Engineer]

Ping

"She gave him blood pressure medicine, antibiotics, analgesics for his fever and splitting headache. She even gave him an antiretroviral medicine normally used to save the lives of AIDS patients."

Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia — seemingly successfully

I wonder if it was Lamivudine?

I'm sure Fauci is all over this by now. [/sarc]

[Black Agnes]

Good question. It’s off patent. So if it works, cheaply, that cat is long out of the bag.

Let’s hope so.

That cat needs to be out of the bag.

[Axenolith]

It is, and I saw the piece the other day where the guy using it was 7 for 8, I believe, and the patient that died was 3-5 days more advanced than the others.