The experimental Ebola vaccines that the U.S. officials are about to test in Africa might prove to be effective. Researchers have developed an improved vaccine based on its predecessor created a few years back. A new chimp virus vaccine could respond to Ebola. The earlier vaccine given in 2009 and 2010 to more than 100 inhabitants of Uganda claimed to have produced antibodies that could protect … [Read more...]
SEC Suspends Trading Fearing Multiple Ebola Stock Scams
Markets have long been touted as amoral entities, but sometimes law and morality intersect in the most obvious manner. SEC decided to prevent four penny stock companies from selling shares because of their claims of working on Ebola cures. The reason - they did not provide adequate information to back their claim. The current Ebola outbreak produced around 5,000 deaths, making it the largest … [Read more...]
MSF Accused of Wasting Time by Not Calling for Ebola Vaccines
A veteran of the medial charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) said that the organization wasted too much time by not calling for Ebola vaccines sooner in the unprecedented West African Ebola outbreak. By now, more than 5,000 people have been killed by the deadly virus. The group’s response to the outbreak has thus far received wise praise from governments as well as the … [Read more...]
Fujifilm’s Avigan May Receive Approval for Ebola Treatment This Year
Avigan, the influenza drug which showed promise in the treatment of Ebola patients, might receive approval by the end of 2014, Fujifilm Holdings Corp announced. Fujifilm’s pharmaceutical division has been growing despite a tiresome series of mergers and acquisitions while its photography business wanes. Toyama Chemical Co. was one of Fujifilm’s most inspired acquisitions in 2008, and Avigan, … [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...]
U.S. Seeks to Boost Experimental Ebola Drug Production
U.S. health officials have requested laboratories to submit plans of increasing the production of Zmapp, the experimental Ebola drug, after supplies ran out. Although the drug hasn’t been widely tested, it had positive results when being used to treat medical workers infected with the hemorrhagic fever virus. On Thursday, an order was issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human services … [Read more...]
Trial Ebola Drug Ready to be Offered by Japan
A Japanese company has been developing their own experimental drug for the Ebola virus, and Tokyo stands ready to offer this drug in the attempts of stemming the global tide of the deadly virus. Yoshihidie Suga, chief cabinet secretary stated on Monday that Japan is ready to provide the experimental drug (which is yet to be approved) and that the manufacturer is also prepared to cooperate with … [Read more...]
Liberian Treatment Center Expands Due to Increase in Ebola Cases
On Saturday, the Ebola treatment center was expanded after authorities noticed that the number of patients was increasing continuously. At the same time, two additional airlines made public announcements that flights would no longer be landing to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Apart from flights, West African athletes have also received official interdictions from competing at the … [Read more...]
Ebola Drugs Sent to Nigeria by a Nigerian in Diaspora
Health Minister Oneybuchi Chukwu confirmed that an experimental drug for the treatment of Ebola has been sent by a Nigerian in diaspora and will be arriving on Thursday in the country. The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the drug called “Nanosilver” in the case of the current Ebola outbreak. As such, the drug can now be used in spite of it still being experimental, since the WHO has … [Read more...]
GSK Ebola Vaccine Going into Clinical Trials Soon
Considering the acute situation in which West Africa finds itself, drug manufacturers now face the situation of having to start clinical trials on experimental drugs. As such, GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it will start the clinical trial for its vaccine against the Ebola virus. The British drug manufacturer has been developing this vaccine together with U.S. scientists and because of the … [Read more...]
