The Ebola vaccine that scientists have been struggling to come up with in the battle against the fatal disease has just undergone the first testing phase and proves amazing potential. So far, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has caused nearly 16,000 cases of infection, and 5,674 deaths over the territory of the three countries most affected by it - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Given the … [Read more...]
Survivor’s Antibodies Could Cure Ebola, Scientists Say
Three Nobel laureates believe that they have found the cure for Ebola. They believe that it is possible to cure this disease by harnessing antibodies from survivors' of the outbreak. For this purpose, they have proposed U.S. officials to focus on a new path to containing the situation. The blood of survivors, also named "convalescent serum", was administered to four U.S. Ebola patients. All of … [Read more...]
