Experimental Ebola drug is hard to make: expert

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Experimental Ebola drug is hard to make: expert

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/experimental-ebola-drug-hard-expert-213804002.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8WCt0FHD4IwZMe9fp7r0nA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/95f3aba982ccb85653c686dc13481759befd9af6.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr Anthony Fauci speaks during an event at George Washington University, December 1, 2011 in Washington, DC" align="left" title="National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr Anthony Fauci speaks during an event at George Washington University, December 1, 2011 in Washington, DC" border="0" /></a>An experimental drug given to two American patients with Ebola is made from tobacco leaves and is hard to produce on a large scale, a leading US doctor said Tuesday. Known as ZMapp, the serum consists of three antibodies manufactured in modified tobacco leaves, which take weeks to grow. It was reportedly rushed to US missionaries Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who were stricken with Ebola while treating patients in Liberia. Both have shown improvements in their health and are now being treated in isolation at an Atlanta, Georgia hospital.</p><br clear="all"/>

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