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

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4. nothing is "going on" here

It is in the very early stages of development. Read the article. All of 18 monkeys were tested. That is a great start, but statistically inadequate to claim it is 100% effective in monkeys, never mind humans.

There were only something like 25 doses total before they used them all up. Commercial production involves growing the monoclonal antibodies in tobacco plants, then extracting and purifying them. As a result, it takes months to produce at a commercial level because it takes some time for the tobacco plants to grow.

"To create a system to produce the humanized mAbs at commercial scale, Mapp used a process called "Rapid Antibody Manufacturing Platform" (RAMP), using magnICON (ICON Genetics) viral vectors. In a process called "magnifection," tobacco plants are infected with the viruses, using Agrobacterium cultures.[2][8][11] Subsequently, antibodies are extracted and purified from the plants. Once the genes encoding the humanized mAbs are in hand, the entire tobacco production cycle is believed to take a few months.[12]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp