• April 24, 2024

According to information from the World Health Organization (WHO) notes that there are 1,350 deaths caused by the virus Ebola ; nevertheless, a hope is born, since two people infected and treated with the experimental medicine are completely healthy.

In accordance with Livescience , the American doctor Kent Brantly, who was infected with Ebola while attending to the victims in Liberia, and the patient Nancy Writebol have recovered and will be discharged.

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Cash the medicine?

The doctor and the patient underwent experimental treatment called ZMap , produced by Mapp Biopharmaceutical , so the theory that it is effective against the disease .

Even three doctors who are treated with the drug already show improvement, says Lewis Brown, information minister of Liberia.

The epidemiologist Oliver Brady, of the Oxford University , says to end the Ebola in Africa millions of doses of experimental medicines would be needed. "

However, although patients are treated with the experimental drug and the results are favorable, it is still unclear if the drug helped their recovery because there is no successful record with the drug.

If it were a success, many doses would be needed to eradicate the virus in the two thousand 473 people infected with Ebola. And you, would you dare to use an unproven drug?