Drug defeats deadly ebola virus infection

by Andy Coghlan - New Scientist.com - Friday May 28, 2010
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An RNA-based drug has treated an infection of the deadly Ebola virus the first drug to have been shown to do so in all recipients. Ebola Zaire virus kills 90 per cent of the people it infects. There are experimental vaccines that protect people given it before they are exposed to the virus, but there has been no drug to help those who are already infected. [...] Four rhesus monkeys infected with the virus all survived after receiving the drug for seven days, starting 30 minutes after infection.

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