Scientists Just Announced That Ebola is Now Curable

The Mind Unleashed – by Elias Marat

Scientists have declared that the era in which the Ebola virus is considered an incurable disease has come to an end.

The announcement, made Monday, comes after two experimental treatments proved so effective in recent trials that they will now be offered to all patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country is currently in the throes of a year-long outbreak of Ebola—the second-largest outbreak ever. 

The disease, which leads to severe cases of fever, headache, and hemorrhaging, normally kills about half of those infected, yet the latest outbreak has claimed the lives of around 70 percent of those who have contracted it. According to Prof. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the director-general of the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, many have walked into Ebola treatment centers only to leave the centers dead.

But the new antibody-based treatments are so potent that only one out of every ten Ebola sufferers who receive the new drugs are expected to die. Muyembe told the Guardian:

“From now on, we will no longer say that Ebola is incurable …  These advances will help save thousands of lives.”

Up until now, many families within the epidemic zone have hidden those infected due to raging violence and distrust, or only taken them to receive care when it was too late to save them or worse, when it become more likely that the virus will be transmitted to family members.

The latest epidemic has infected around 2,800 patients so far and killed nearly 1,000 of them, according to the World Health Organization. Doctor Muyembe expects the new drugs to be a game-changer, noting:

“Now that 90% of their patients can go into the treatment center and come out completely cured, they will start believing it and building trust in the population and community.”

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