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Article: Early promise for treatment of Ebola.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- January 2, 2004
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2004 JAN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Preliminary findings of an animal study suggest that scientists have taken an important step toward a possible treatment strategy for the deadly Ebola virus.
Hemorrhagic fever from the Ebola virus is fatal in up to 80% of cases in humans. The virus is thought to cause excessive blood coagulation and thrombosis leading to organ dysfunction. Inhibition of the blood coagulation pathway could therefore be a potential therapeutic approach for Ebola treatment.
Thomas W. Geisbert from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and colleagues injected 12 rhesus macaques with the Ebola virus to induce ...