Cure and Vaccine for Ebola?

[Kirk Freeman]

Wonderful news from the science front: new type of antibody showing promise to cure ebola.

Let's all hope this monoclonal antibody can be used on a host of ailments.

Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Shows Promise for Curing Ebola - Technology Review

 

[hacksawfg]

That is pretty cool, I'm in Winnipeg right now on business, was on the front page of the news last week when I got in.

Here's another article, bit more info.

Winnipeg lab reports progress in potential treatment for deadly Ebola infection - Winnipeg Free Press

 

[cobber]

It's nature pushing back. We can deal with this or that disease, but like as not something else will emerge.

As folks have pointed out, stuff like malaria is a much greater public health threat, and we ostensibly know how to deal with it.

Re weaponized Ebola, I doubt most nations would be capable of doing this, let alone Al Qaeda.

 

[Disposable Heart]

Amazing! I have no idea how many in Africa die of that or Hemmoragic fever. This is truely a breakthrough.

Then again, there's more money for pharma companies to keep a rich old man horny than curing AIDS or other horrible scourges of humanity. With all the antibiotics in the water supply and being handed out like candy, eventually Earth will issue us our order to die. We are killing ourselves, we just don't know it yet.

 

[strahd71]

Great its gonna mutate and were all gonnabe zombies

 

[steveh_131]

Wow, I had no idea there were 5 different strains. And this only works for one of them

Still, that's a heck of a lot farther than we've been before. I hope they can figure out a way to make it effective for humans.