Ebola future or investigational therapies

Future therapy
There is new research, that has been tested on monkeys, which shows some promising results as far as protection from ebola. This new therapy has shown promise when it comes to treating accidental infections with the ebola virus, which would be a very important feat, especially for people working with ebola in laboratories. The research, which took place under the supervision of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, uses a specific group of compounds called antisense phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers, or PMOs. The scientists eventually developed a therapy, which was referred to as AVI-6002, that was able to demonstrate a survival rate of approximately 90% in pre and post-exposure animals. Using this new treatment, 5 out of 8 monkeys were able to survive exposure to the ebola virus, which are very promising results. This new treatment could be very significant because it has been thought that ebola could be used as a biological weapon. Ebola has a very high mortality rate and it tends to infect and kill the patient rather quickly.