First Ebola Treatment Approved: Expert Viewpoint - Forbes
Last week the first treatment for any kind of Ebola, a triple monoclonal antibody combination designed to treat the most severe ‘Zaire’ form of the virus, was approved by the FDA . The company behind the treatment, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, has had a lot of attention recently. It is also developing a dual antibody treatment for Covid-19 – famously endorsed by Trump after he was treated with it after becoming infected with the virus. To find out more about what the Ebola therapy approval means, I spoke to virologist Professor Daniel Bausch from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been working to combat emerging tropical viruses such as Ebola and SARS coronavirus for the last 25 years. What is Ebola? Ebola is a small RNA virus that has been responsible for a number of serious epidemics in Africa over the last 20 years including a large epidemic in West Africa from 2013-2016 that killed more than 11,000 people. Ebola virus in the blood 3D rendered Illustra