Ebola may soon be a "preventable and treatable"
disease, after a trial of two drugs showed significantly improved survival
rates, scientists have said.
The year-long Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of
Congo has so far killed at least 1,800 people.
The trial in DR Congo has saved roughly 90% of the patients
who received them early in the course of infection.
Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases who co-led the trial, hailed the breakthrough.
"It significantly diminishes the mortality associated
with Ebola disease," he told the BBC’s Newsday programme.
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