Ebola Is Now
a Curable Disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
and the National Institutes of Health
announced two new treatments that
can increase survival of the deadly disease.
Today’s news puts us one more step to saving more lives, Mike Ryan, WHO Director of Health Emergencies,
via 'Wired'.
The new treatments saw death rates
drop to 11% and 6%, compared to 24%
and 33% of previous treatments.
Since last November, patients have
in the Democratic Republic of Congo
have been receiving the experimental
treatments at four treatment centers.
The country has been experiencing
a year-long outbreak of Ebola, the
second-largest that has been recorded.
More than 2,800
people have been infected
leading to 1,794 deaths.
After the virus crossed
international borders, the WHO
declared it a “public health emergency
of international concern” in July
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