According to Reuters, these include those suffering the fever and hemorrhaging characteristics of the disease and had been hours from death.
Monkeys not treated until five days after infection also survived.
Reportedly, no other experimental Ebola
therapy has shown such success in primates. Five days of infection in
the animals has been said to be the equivalent of nine to 11 days after
infection in humans.
Although, two American aid workers who
contracted Ebola in Liberia were cured after receiving ZMapp, their
physicians do not know if the d Liberian doctor with the disease on Monday was confirmed dead, despite being given the drug, as did a Spanish priest.
ZMapp, produced by Mapp
Biopharmaceutical in San Diego, USA, has never been scientifically
tested in people, and the current study was the first in primates.
The development was described by
virologist Thomas Geisbert of the University of Texas Medical Branch as a
monumental achievement.
There are no approved Ebola vaccines or
treatments, but human safety trials will begin this week on a vaccine
from GlaxoSmithKline, and later on, on one from NewLink Genetics Corp.
According to the World Health
Organisation, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed 1,552 people
out of 3,069 confirmed cases and is on pace to infect 20,000. WHO also
said the outbreak would almost certainly continue into 2015.
ZMapp has been described as a
mix of three antibodies that bind to proteins on Ebola viruses and
trigger the immune system to destroy them.
rug helped.
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