According to Tass, it was tested on 20 volunteers, as a result, scientists have positive results: the immune system of each of the patients develop antibodies to the beginning Ebola virus. In this case, no side effects, except for short-term rise in temperature in the two volunteers were found.
It is planned that on December 2, Barack Obama will visit the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is developing a vaccine to personally thank the scientists fighting with life-threatening illness. In 2015, Obama plans to urge Congress to provide additional budgetary resources to combat fever.
Let us recall the victims of the virus, according to the latest WHO data, become 5.7 thousand people. Most of the dead – in the states of West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea. Another 16,000 people are infected. In the United States, four cases of Ebola, including one fatal, in Spain – one case of the disease.
“The mortality rate is 37.4%. The cases are registered among medical staff – 549 medical workers affected by Ebola 311 of them – with fatal consequences. According to WHO experts, the increase in cases in Guinea has stabilized in Liberia observed decline in activity of the epidemic process, while in Sierra Leone the situation continues to deteriorate, “- said in Rospotrebnadzor.
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