Ebola: Experimental drug ZMapp is '100% effective' in animal trials

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Source: BBC

By James Gallagher
Health editor, BBC News website

The only clinical trial data on the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp shows it is 100% effective in monkey studies, even in later stages of the infection.

The researchers, publishing their data in Nature, said it was a "very important step forward".

Yet the limited supplies will not help the 20,000 people predicted to be infected during the outbreak in West Africa.

And two out of seven people given the drug, have later died from the disease.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28980153

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Nature appears to have made the entire paper accessible online: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vnfv/ncurrent/full/nature13777.html

ETA: This is a "near-final version" of the report.