Reports that Ebola has been 'cured' are greatly exaggerated. Here's what new drugs can do for those sickened in the latest outbreak -- and what they can't.
that two experimental Ebola medications saved about 90% patients who were treated early. The results were so impressive that the drugs will be offered to all patients sickened in the current outbreak., who helped run the trial as director general of the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The epicenter of the current outbreak straddles two conflict-ridden provinces of eastern Congo, where insurgents have launched attacks on medical workers and cultivated conspiracy theories about the disease. As a result, many families have hidden infected relatives in their homes. Only a small percentage of Ebola patients have made their way to treatment centers, and an even smaller number have arrived before the disease’s final stages.
“The term ‘cure’ means ridding the body of infection, and fully recovering to the state of health before the Ebola infection,” Gostin said. In his view, declaring a cure was “certainly overstated.”Some survivors of the West Africa outbreak appeared to shed the Ebola virus from their bloodstream, but small amounts remained in other bodily fluids. Many survivors also experienced long-term complications that drastically altered their quality of life.
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