WORLD INFORMATIONS: Ebola Is Now Curable This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. (I'm a bot) Starting last November, patients in four treatment centers in the country's east, where the outbreak is at its worst, were randomly assigned to receive one of four investigational therapies-either an antiviral drug called remdesivir or one of three drugs that use monoclonal antibodies. The monoclonal antibody cocktail produced by a company called Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had the biggest impact on lowering death rates, down to 29 percent, while NIAID's monoclonal antibody, called mAb114, had a mortality rate of 34 percent. Drugs based on monoclonal antibodies have become a mainstay of modern medicine-fending off a variety of diseases from cancer to lupus. Ebola infiltrates its victims' cells using spiky proteins on the virus's outer shell, so researchers screened the antibodies for the ones that did the best job of binding to those proteins. An even better solution, some have posited, would be to mine the serum of Ebola survivors and harvest the DNA from the white blood cells that make antibodies. All Ebola treatment units in the outbreak zone will now only administer the two most effective monoclonal antibody drugs, according to the WHO's director of health emergencies, Mike Ryan."Today's news puts us one more step to saving more lives," said Ryan. Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: antibody#1 Ebola#2 drug#3 outbreak#4 percent#5 Post found in /r/worldnews, /r/hackernews, /r/news, /r/bprogramming, /r/UpliftingNews and /r/Wired_Top_Stories. NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here.