Just months after Ebola came to Texas and created a stir, researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, who had long been researching the disease, have announced successful development of a post-exposure treatment. One that is proving to be effective against a specific strain of the Ebola virus that killed thousands of people in West Africa.
The study results, in the April 22 edition of Nature Journal, demonstrated that the treatment is the first to be shown effective against the new Makona outbreak strain of Ebola in animals that were infected with the virus and exhibited symptoms of the disease. Tests on humans is still in the next phase of the research.
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