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Article: Drug found to stop Ebola virus in mice
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 10, 1996
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ANTWERP, Belgium U.S. Army medical researchers have found a drug
that may help treat Ebola hemorrhagic fever and may turn out to be a
cure for the disease, which has proven fatal in up to 90 percent of
all cases.
Test-tube studies of infected monkey cells and use of the
intravenous drug in infected mice have proven 100 percent effective
in getting rid of the virus.
"Our final conclusion is it looks like a therapeutic
intervention that can be done," John Huggins of the U.S. Army Medical
Research Institute on Infectious Diseases told scientists gathered
here for the International Colloquium on Ebola Virus Research.
Dr. Karl Johnson, who headed international efforts to stop the
first Ebola ...