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'Ebola has been defeated. Vaccines and medical treatments have brought the
deadly and terrifying disease under control, says Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the
Congolese professor who first discovered the virus more than 40 years ago.
The 79-year-old virologist was speaking at a ceremony in the Democratic
Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa marking the arrival on the market of the
"Ebanga" treatment, which was approved last December by the US Food and Drug
Administration.
Together with more effective clinical treatments, the availability of vaccines
means the highly infectious haemorrhagic fever that once proved almost always
fatal can now be contained.
"For 40 years I have been a witness and a player in the fight against this
terrifying and deadly disease and I can say today: it is defeated, it is
preventable and curable," Muyembe said.
"I'm the happiest of Congolese people."
Ebanga, a human monoclonal antibody that prevents the virus from entering a
cell and reduces the risk of dying, is "the Congolese molecule", as US
biologist Nancy Sullivan put it, having done research in America with Muyembe.'
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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