Saturday, 1 September 2018

PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola update (81): Congo DR (NK) case update, response, clinical trials

Ebola -- DR Congo
Health workers fighting the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC have given nearly 20 people experimental drugs to treat the virus since mid-August [2018]. But because the drugs have been dispensed on a case-by-case, "compassionate use" basis, it is hard to know whether any are effective. Now, desperate to determine which therapy works best, researchers from the DRC and US governments, the World Health Organization, and other groups are meeting this week to plan a clinical trial that will compare

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6002182&promed&0

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