Wednesday 3 September 2014

How collaborative innovation led to the experimental serum for Ebola

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Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, the two American aid workers infected with the Ebola virus while volunteering in Liberia, were released from the hospital yesterday after they recovered from the illness.

They were both given an experimental serum, Zmapp, before being flown from Liberia to CDC facilities in Atlanta, Georgia, three week ago. Brantly — who was seriously deteriorating before the drug was administered — yesterday appeared overjoyed, telling the media he was "thrilled to be alive."

These two Americans might have recovered anyway. In the West African communities that have...

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