EBOLA BREAK THROUGH:-Survivors’ Blood Can Be Used To Treat Ebola, WHO Says
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also said that patients with Ebola virus can be treated with the blood of those who have survived the viral disease. According to their medical experts, people produce antibodies in the blood in an attempt to fight off an Ebola infection. These antibodies can then be transferred into a sick patient through transfusion to boost the patient immune system. According to reports, Dr. Marie Paule Kieny, an assistant director general at the organization (WHO) said: "We agreed that the whole blood therapies may be used to treat virus and all efforts must be invested to help infected countries to use them. "There is a real opportunity that a blood-derived product can be used and this can be very effective in terms of treating the patients with Ebola vrus." She also said that it was the one positive aspect of so many people being infected. "There are also many people now who have survived and are doing well. They can provide us with their blood to treat the other people who are sick." This therapy was believed to have worked during the 1995 outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo after 7 out of 8 people survived due to the treatment
