India, Aug. 14 -- Two of four potential drug candidates found to cure disease, says WHO
Two of four experimental drugs being tested for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can cure the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on August 12, 2019.
EVD has claimed 1,866 lives in the DRC since August 1, 2018. As many as 2,781 EVD cases have been reported till date.
A trial of four investigational agents (ZMapp, remdesivir, mAb114 and REGN-EB3) for the treatment of patients with EVD began in November 20, 2018, in the DRC as part of the emergency response to an ongoing Ebola outbreak in the North Kivu and Ituri Provinces.
"The preliminary results in 499 study participants indicated that those indiv...