A trial of a potential drug to treat Ebola has started at a Medecins Sans Frontieres centre in Liberia, the BBC has reported.
The
antiviral - brincidofovir - is being tested on Ebola patients on a
voluntary basis. People who do not consent to it receive standard care.
Oxford University scientists leading the research say initial results are expected in the next few months.
A study involving a similar drug - favipiravir - began in Guinea in December.
More
than 8,000 people have died from Ebola during this outbreak, the
majority in the worst-affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Liberia.
While a handful of experimental drugs, including
brincidofovir and favipiravir, have been given on an ad hoc,
compassionate basis in the last year, none has yet been proven to work
against the virus in scientific human trials.
A huge international
effort - involving the World Health Organization, MSF, drug companies,
the Wellcome Trust, and other global health organisations - aims to
fast-track treatments that have been identified as potential options. ...NigerianTribune
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