Scientists finally develop ‘breakthrough’ Ebola Cure

The Ebola outbreak has infected over 600 people in DRC, leading to the death of at least 368 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The name of the disease was coined from the Ebola river as the location where it was first discovered and found spreading in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Between then and 2013, there was no successful treatment for the deadly disease.

At first, scientists were able to produce a vaccine which was successful on the Zaire strain of Ebola but didn’t see any success with the other two lethal strains of Ebola, the Sudan and Bundibugyo viruses.

Recently, scientists have produced a drug cocktail that proved successful on monkeys infected with the three deadly strains of Ebola.

Their research produced a drug cocktail called MBP134 which only requires a single intravenous injection to be administered to the patient.

The research was led by Thomas Geisbert, Ph.D. at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in a public-private partnership that also included Mapp Biopharmaceuticals, the U.S. Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.