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To: dforest

Two links to ponder, note the date of the first:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/japan-ready-to-offer-drug-for-ebola-treatment/article6350108.ece

And now:

http://news.yahoo.com/first-french-ebola-patient-leaves-hospital-144706059—finance.html

” The French health ministry has authorised the use of four experimental drugs for treating Ebola: Favipiravir, TKM-100-802, ZMapp and ZMabs.

Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said in a statement last month that its Avigan treatment, which contains Favipiravir, had been administered to the French Ebola patient.”

Japan has stockpiled enough of this compound to treat 20K patients. They offered it to WHO in AUGUST. So far it seems to have only been used on a French patient.

It showed activity against ebola in the lab in April of this year:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24462697


87 posted on 10/04/2014 10:48:32 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Its all about money lady. I am so tired of manipulation and lies.


88 posted on 10/04/2014 10:51:05 AM PDT by dforest
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