Amid unrelenting chaos and violence, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running a clinical trial of new drugs to try to combat a year-long Ebola outbreak. On Monday, the trial’s cosponsors at the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health announced that two of the experimental treatments appear to dramatically boost survival rates.
While an experimental vaccine previously had been shown to shield people from catching Ebola, the news marks a first for people who already have been infected.
“From now on, we will no longer say that Ebola is incurable,” said Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director general of the Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale in the DRC, which has overseen the trial’s operations on the ground.
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No worries. I got my flu shot so I’m good.
Now that Big Pharma has lost millions of dollars because of the anti-vaxxers, they will come up with a new vaccine against this disease for the vaxxers to make up for it.
so let me try to understand what you’re saying here.. this disease kills 90% of the people infected and you’re complaining that a company has developed a cure and they shouldn’t take it, correct?