{"id":2914,"date":"2014-08-29T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T03:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2014-08-30T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T23:18:24","slug":"experimental-drug-reverses-ebola-in-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/experimental-drug-reverses-ebola-in-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental drug reverses Ebola in monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study reports that treatment with the experimental antibody \u201ccocktail\u201d known as ZMapp resulted in recovery in 100% of the 18 rhesus macaques treated with the drug, even when initiated up to five days after infection. This experimental therapy still requires safety testing in humans, but these results indicate that it could be a promising option for the treatment of Ebola virus infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The tests were carried out at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, part of the Public Health Agency of Canada. Lead authors Xiangguo Qiu and Gary Kobinger gave an embargoed press conference by phone earlier today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vnfv\/ncurrent\/full\/nature13777.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Nature<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 29, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reports that treatment with the experimental antibody \u201ccocktail\u201d known as ZMapp resulted in recovery in 100% of the 18 rhesus macaques treated with the drug, even when initiated up to five days after infection. This experimental therapy still requires safety testing in humans, but these results indicate that it could be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,476],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-L0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}