Guinea: Initial Results With Experimental Ebola Drug Show Positive Effect for Some Patients

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Guinea: Initial Results With Experimental Ebola Drug Show Positive Effect for Some Patients [1]

Initial results of a clinical trial of the experimental drug favipiravir suggest that it can reduce mortality among patients with low levels of the Ebola virus in their blood, but is ineffective fo

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25/02/2015

Source: All Africa [2]

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