Ebola -- Liberia
30 Jun 2016: Achilles heel discovered in Ebola virus may lead to future treatment
[A team of researchers working at Oxford University in the U.K. has found what appears to be an Achilles heel in the Ebola virus, a pocket able to hold destabilizing compounds. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes the pocket that they discovered and 2 drugs that, when used to occupy the pocket, caused the virus to become unstable and, therefore, unable to reproduce."
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/29hpGTK
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