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“An Ebola cure emerged from a war zone Wall Street Journal (10/30/19) McKay, Betsy
In a medical breakthrough, two new drugs are saving lives from the Ebola virus and helping uncover tools against other deadly infectious diseases.
They were proven effective in a gold-standard clinical trial conducted by an international coalition of doctors and researchers in the middle of armed violence. The work of Congolese virologist Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, director-general of Congo’s National Institute of Biomedical Research, known as the INRB, yielded one of the new Ebola drugs.
He was among the first scientists to identify the Ebola virus, which has taken the lives of an estimated 3,000 people in his country and threatened many more around the world. Researchers tested four experimental drugs, and two were most effective.
The trial was conducted at four Ebola treatment centers, essentially tent-sided field hospitals, scattered across a violent swath of northeastern Congo during the world’s second-largest outbreak of the disease. In addition to the threat from the contagious virus, researchers dodged attacks by warring local groups.
Two of the treatment centers were set on fire. Preliminary results were released on August 12, days after the trial ended. Final results are expected to be published soon in a medical journal.
Beyond Ebola, the new drugs open a pathway for antibody-based treatments for other infectious diseases, said Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which ran the trial with the INRB and a research group coordinated by the World Health Organization.”
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