Prototype Ebola drug clears early test hurdle

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Prototype Ebola drug clears early test hurdle

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/prototype-ebola-drug-clears-early-test-hurdle-191430103.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pSnD54WahOFqm0XcSntBhg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c0ddb4b395b266075da209b5e4df5e0eabbc9281.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Health workers, wearing a protective suit, conduct an ebola prevention drill at the port in Monrovia, Liberia on August 29, 2014" align="left" title="Health workers, wearing a protective suit, conduct an ebola prevention drill at the port in Monrovia, Liberia on August 29, 2014" border="0" /></a>A prototype drug that has been urgently given to a handful of patients with Ebola has cleared an important test hurdle, showing that it cured lab monkeys with the disease, scientists said Friday. Normally, experimental drugs are tested first on animals and then on progressively larger groups of humans to ensure they are safe and effective. Reporting online in the British journal Nature, researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada said 18 rhesus macaque monkeys given high doses of Ebola virus fully recovered after being given ZMapp, even when it was administered five days after infection. The 21 animals had been given the so-called Kikwit strain of Ebola, named after a location in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country where the haemorrhagic fever was discovered in 1976.</p><br clear="all"/>

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