Japan has offered to provide an experimental serum against Ebola virus, which was originally designed to treat influenza
Flu treatment has been approved by the Ministry of Health of Japan in March. Takao Aoki Fujifilm spokesman said that the company is in talks with the United States authorities on starting clinical trials as a treatment for Ebola favipiravir. Aoki said that the developer currently has enough stock to treat about 20,000 patients.
the workings The drug works by inhibiting viral replication gene,
The World Health Organization racing to field test treatments for Ebola virus in the biggest outbreak 'since its discovery in the 1970s. The UN health body said last month that, given the severity of the outbreak, some shortcuts or deviations from normal testing procedures will be accepted.
Another experimental drug, produced ZMapp USA - which has never been tested in humans before this year Ebola outbreak - has been used to treat patients, two of which have been found in the United States.
Two American aid workers were successfully treated at a hospital in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, after contracting the deadly virus in Liberia. Nancy Writebol Fifty-nine years and 33 years Kent Brantly freed Thursday after being treated in hospitals in the United States in early August. It is unclear whether ZMapp is the cause for their recovery.
In some cases, this drug has been used with no success at all. On Monday, the death of Abraham Borbor, a Liberian doctor who had been treated with ZMapp, reported. Before that, Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest 75 years, died after being treated with the drug in a hospital in Madrid earlier this month.
The virus has spread to DRC
The Ebola virus is transmitted through contact with blood or other body fluids and was first discovered in the 1970s.
The current outbreak is said to have started around March this year. A number of countries have closed their borders to the countries affected and bans issued to and from the tourist areas.
Democratic Republic of Congo has become the fifth African country - after Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria - for a confirmed case of Ebola outbreaks.
Of the eight people who suffer from mystery fever undergoing tests in DRC, two tested positive for Ebola. The World Health Organization has announced it will send supplies to the medical staff to treat Ebola there.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has previously announced on Thursday that 70 people have died in an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis but it was not Ebola outbreak.
More than 2,600 people and 1,400 people die of infection has been recorded in the outbreak this year, including in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria. Liberia has seen most of the deaths, more than 600 people, with the presence of the disease is now confirmed in all regions of the country.
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