The current Ebola outbreak has killed about 55 percent of its victims, although the fatality rate has been around 90 percent during other outbreaks.
Laboratory technicians of the company Icon Genetics GmbH, a German biopharma firm, prepare proteins from tobacco plants (Nicotiana benthamiana) for weighing in a laboratory in Halle, Germany, Aug. 14. Icon Genetics is helping in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, by creating antibodies needed for the experimental drug known as ZMapp.culled
The latest experimental Ebola treatment could come from Fujifilm. The Japanese camera company based in Tokyo ventured into the pharmaceutical industry five years ago, acquiring a company with an experimental flu vaccine that may soon be used to help patients fight the deadly Ebola virus disease.
With at least 1,427 people having died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone during the most recent Ebola outbreak, health workers are scrambling to find possible treatments. The top candidate was ZMapp, made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., headquartered in San Diego.
ZMapp has been credited with helping two American aid workers who contracted the virus, as Reuters noted. However, its efficacy also has been questioned after a Liberian doctor died despite receiving the same treatment, as BBC News pointed out. In any case, the company recently warned that its available supply of ZMapp was exhausted, leaving authorities to looking elsewhere for another option.
I am for anything to fight this deadly virus, I hope and pray a cure is found soon before mata pass be careful
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Na wa ooo lord av mercy o.
DeleteKeeping my fingers crossed. I really really pray it works. Ofcos that's if America won't say again that's Pesticides. Lol!
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#Hot Ice.
This may bring the much needed hope.
ReplyDeleteGod please breath your breath of life into these numerous drugs on trial so we can have a cure for Ebola virus.
Another good news.
ReplyDeleteI just hope dis works!
ReplyDeletePls make it Work dear God!
Bravo! When will Nigeria and Africa as a whole get to this stage? Ebola isn't in Japan yet but they are getting prepared for the unexpected. Black race hehn, may God help us oo.
ReplyDeleteListen. I think these oyibo people don't want to give us these drugs. A Briton has been discharged.They want us to die they're here telling us its experimental drugs. The victims in Africa don't have options. Use them as experiments TOO. They won't mind. You use your citizens they get well...you say its experiment.. Give us the Vaccine/drugs.
ReplyDeleteY shld d oyibo giv us d drugs? Do dey hav 2 heads dat dey r using to find cure for d disease?! Black man always waitin for oyibo to solve deir problems! Some yrs bak Wole Soyinka said some of our senators earn more dan Obama! Dats jst too absurd, we hv so much money dat is jst stolen nd shared among our stupid leaders who we won't call to book insted we'l b buggin Obama dat is caring for his own! Don't go nd get ur drugs, b waiting for "oyibo"! Mchww
DeleteI pray this works
ReplyDeleteWelcomed development!!! Thank you Jesus
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ReplyDeleteI pray it works.
ReplyDeleteIt is well!
ReplyDeleteJesus we need ”you now like never before!
ReplyDeleteI tire for ds Ebola matter o. So tired hearing about it.
ReplyDeleteIf the drug zmapps was finished where did they get the dose to give the British guy who was infected and flown to Britain ?
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