[PA Engineer]

Sort of a SWAG (and discussions with Wife MD). The drug treatment has to begin within the first 4 days based on Dr. Logan's work. All of his patients died when treatment was begun later. All of his patients were confirmed ebola. The 10 days is based on the "new ebola" course of infection.

Black Agnes has discussed the similarity between Epivir and Favipiravir, offered by the Japanese. Favipiravir was used to successfully treat the infection in a French nurse.

Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia — seemingly successfully

"Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that theoretically, Logan's approach has some merit. Lamivudine is a nucleocide analog, and other drugs in this class are being studied to treat Ebola."

Fauci was notified of this novel treatment back in September. I'll cut him just a little slack on this. The use of Epivir for Ebola is an off label treatment and forbidden by the FDA.

[FredZarguna]

The trick seems to be to suppress the virus long enough or successfully treat the symptoms long enough for the organs producing adaptive immune cells to survive. Unlike HIV, once an adaptive immune response develops, the virus is destroyed. In all the survivors we have, no trace of Ebola has been found. Current theory is supportive care and virus suppression may allow the spleen and lymphatic system to survive long enough to start producing Ebola killers, absent that, the structures of the specific immune system are destroyed too quickly to kick in.

[lulu16]

“The use of Epivir for Ebola is an off label treatment and forbidden by the FDA.”

But do you think it would work?

And, I have not kept up with Fauci? Is there a political or medical reason he is not respected here?

And do the doctors in the US have to go through him when prescribing treatment. Then should the “relatives” of Duncan be blaming his for his death?

Or, do you think they wanted him to die to keep the white-survivors/ dead -African black man tension up? ( I keep an eye on CNN and that is their angle; he did not get the treatment he needed because he is poor and black.)