MY THOUGHT FOR TODAY: I WONDER IF THIS SO-CALLED SECRET SERUM GIVEN TO TWO EBOLA-INFECTED AMERICANS IS REALLY THE ANSWER TO CURING EBOLA ? IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY EVIDENCE BASED EFFICACY OF THIS SERUM CURING EBOLA PATIENTS, IT MAY BE TOO EARLY TO REJOICE !! Back in 1995 during the large outbreak of Ebola Zaire virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there were reports that convalescent serum was used from people who survived Ebola to treat people who were infected, A small case series report about the treatment involving eight patients was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Only one of the eight people died, a fatality rate much lower than the then-outbreak, which killed some 80 percent of those infected. Unfortunately, however, the serum theory was not confirmed by later studies. When we tested that hypothesis in a lab, and took convalescent blood from animals who survived and gave it to Ebola-infected animals, they all died, said Dr. Geisbert. There was the belief that most of those patients treated were in the process of recovering anyway.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:15:40 +0000
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