A panel of World Health
Organization ethicists
will discuss whether to
use experimental drugs
in the West African
Ebola outbreak that has killed 932
people since March.
Two American patients have received
an experimental Ebola drug called
ZMapp made by Mapp
Pharmaceuticals, a 9-person company
in San Diego.
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The drug -- made of monoclonal
antibodies derived from plants -- had
been shown to work in monkeys
within two days of infection, but it
had never been tested in humans
before. The patients, Dr. Kent Brantly
and missionary Nancy Writebol, have
since been flown from Liberia to
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta,
where they are reportedly improving.
“We are in an unusual situation in this
outbreak. We have a disease with a
high fatality rate without any proven
treatment or vaccine,” Dr. Marie-Paule
Kieny, WHO’s Assistant Director-
General, said in a statement. "We
need to ask the medical ethicists to
give us guidance on what the
responsible thing to do is.”
ZMapp is one of several experimental
Ebola treatments, but there is no
approved vaccine or cure for the
deadly virus.
Given that even unproven treatments
are in short supply, the WHO panel
will also discuss who should receive
them.
The first human clinical trial of an
Ebola vaccine is set to begin
sometime in September, said Dr.
Anthony Fauci, director of the
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases at the National
Institutes of Health. If successful, it
will likely take until mid- or late-2015
before a limited number of health
care workers can receive the vaccine,
he said.

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September ke? hw many ppl go remain by den? chai!!! make dem do am sharp sharp abeg, no tym!!!

Dis pole are saying September again bring am sharp sharp jare since there's possibility it works

Daluuzor: September ke? hw many ppl go remain by den? chai!!! make dem do am sharp sharp abeg, no tym!!!

yah september! you expect they should start doling a medicine yet unproven for a cure? And if it generate into something else they never envisage...?

Reading on how blood transfussion evolved has given me the understanding of how cautious it demands before coming out to the worldwith things like this or the so touted cure may just prove to be counterproductive at the end

or as a good samaritan will you volunteer to be tested with ZMapp?

wittytezzy:

yah september! you expect they should start doling a medicine yet unproven for a cure? And if it generate into something else they never envisage...?

Reading on how blood transfussion evolved has given me the understanding of how cautious it demands before coming out to the worldwith things like this or the so touted cure may just prove to be counterproductive at the end

or as a good samaritan will you volunteer to be tested with ZMapp?

bro I understand d issue of clinical trials and to d best of my knowledge, d drug has been tested on chimps and monkeys, and dese apes share a 1% DNA difference with humans. Since a drastic disease requires a drastic cure, d drugs should be tested on d affected persons since deir chances of living is very low. Or wuld u prefer we wait till 2015 wen d number of casualties wuld av skyrocketed?
BTW, The US of A tested deir yet to b tested atomic bomb on Japanese soil, and d effect made dem place an embargo on atomic bombs, Afta d deed has been done!