Experimental Ebola drug ZMapp cures 100 percent of lab monkeys

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Experimental Ebola drug ZMapp cures 100 percent of lab monkeys

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/experimental-ebola-drug-zmapp-cures-100-percent-lab-084239771.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/kHZoFJW.yhE2eyOKXozVcA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2014-08-30T084239Z_1007970001_LYNXMPEA7T030_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-US-HEALTH-EBOLA-TREATMENT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Doctors work in a Biosafety Level III laboratory at the National Institute of Health in Lima" align="left" title="Doctors work in a Biosafety Level III laboratory at the National Institute of Health in Lima" border="0" /></a>By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - The experimental Ebola drug ZMapp cured all 18 of the lab monkeys infected with the deadly virus, including those suffering the fever and hemorrhaging characteristic of the disease and just hours from death, scientists reported on Friday. No other experimental Ebola therapy has ever shown success in primates when given that long after infection; ZMapp, produced by San Diego-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical, has never been scientifically tested in people, and the current study was the first in primates. The success is therefore a &quot;monumental achievement,&quot; virologist Thomas Geisbert of the University of Texas Medical Branch wrote in a commentary on the paper, published online in Nature.</p><br clear="all"/>

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