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Monday 4 August 2014

US doctors say ‘secret serum’ helped save lives of American Ebola patients

So wait, the US may have found a cure to Ebola? And if they have, will they come help patients of this dreaded disease in Africa? The article below was written by Dr. Sanjay Gupta for CNN and they are saying an experimental drug called ZMapp likely saved the lives of 2 US missionary doctors (pictured above) who contracted the disease while working in Liberia...see report below from CNN..
Three vials containing an experimental drug stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment.
The drug appears to have worked, sources say. Dr. Kent Brantly's and Nancy Writebol's conditions significantly improved after receiving the medication, sources say. Brantly was able to walk into Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being evacuated to the United States last week, and Writebol is expected to arrive in Atlanta on Tuesday.
On July 22, Brantly woke up feeling feverish. Fearing the worst, Brantly immediately isolated himself. Writebol's symptoms started three days later. A rapid field blood test confirmed the infection in both of them after they had become ill with fever, vomiting and diarrhea.

It's believed both Brantly and Writebol, who worked with the aid organization Samaritan's Purse, contracted Ebola from another health care worker at their hospital in Liberia, although the official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case investigation has yet to be released.

A representative from the National Institutes of Health contacted Samaritan's Purse in Liberia and offered the experimental treatment, known as ZMapp, for the two patients, according to the source.

The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., which is based in San Diego. The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys.

According to company documents, four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection. Two of four other monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived. One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus.

Brantly and Writebol were aware of the risk of taking a new, little understood treatment and gave informed consent, according to two sources familiar with the care of the missionary workers. In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been given within 48 hours of infection. Brantly didn't receive it until he'd been sick for nine days.

The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice's blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells.

The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding.

Early symptoms include sudden onset of fever, weakness, muscle pain, headaches and a sore throat. They later progress to vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function -- and sometimes internal and external bleeding.

The ZMapp vials reached the hospital in Liberia where Brantly and Writebol were being treated Thursday morning. Doctors were instructed to allow the serum to thaw naturally without any additional heat. It was expected that it would be eight to 10 hours before the medicine could be given, according to a source familiar with the process.

Brantly asked that Writebol be given the first dose because he was younger and he thought he had a better chance of fighting it, and she agreed. However, as the first vial was still thawing, Brantly's condition took a sudden turn for the worse.

Brantly began to deteriorate and developed labored breathing. He told his doctors he thought he was dying, according to a source with firsthand knowledge of the situation.

Knowing his dose was still frozen, Brantly asked if he could have Writebol's now-thawed medication. It was brought to his room and administered through an IV. Within an hour of receiving the medication, Brantly's condition dramatically improved. He began breathing easier; the rash over his trunk faded away. One of his doctors described the events as "miraculous."

By the next morning, Brantly was able to take a shower on his own before getting on a specially designed Gulfstream air ambulance jet to be evacuated to the United States.

Writebol also received a vial of the medication. Her response was not as remarkable, according to sources familiar with the treatment. However, doctors on Sunday administered Writebol a second dose of the medication, which resulted in significant improvement.

She was stable enough to be evacuated back to the United States and is expected to arrive before noon Tuesday.

The process by which the medication was made available to Brantly and Writebol is highly unusual. ZMapp has not been approved for human use, and has not even gone through the clinical trial process, which is standard to prove the safety and efficacy of a medication. It may have been given under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "compassionate use" regulation, which allows access to investigational drugs outside clinical trials.

120 comments:

Ceeflo said...

Please dis is no time for secrecy! We won't join them in their contest for a Nobel prize, we just need the cure

Amablaze said...

Hmmm..I pray it's d real cure 4dis deadly disease ohh.God pls come to our rescue..dis Ebola disease scares me so badly

mercy said...

heard it only helps at the earliest stages of the infection.

Anonymous said...

What!!!!!. So Yankee has secret cure and they kept everyone in the dark! There is God o!

Anonymous said...

What!!!!!. So Yankee has secret cure and they kept everyone in the dark! There is God o!

mercy said...

LINDA pls check it out and see if there is any truth in it.
Bitter-Kola has been internationally verified to cure Ebola. Anyone who suspects they are in danger of catching it is advised to consume it. It is like food and there is no overdose. Simply peel and chew!May God protect us all, Amen! pls do not forget to share cheers!!!!!!! Pls follow this link for more. Confirmation. http://articles.philly.com/1999-08-04/news/25485403_1_ebola-virus-miracle-drug-kolaHappy New Month

BONARIO NNAGS said...

I'm just happy there appears light at the end of the tunnel.
Plz they should try and make it available to us down here, before this issue gets out of hand.

~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

Anonymous said...

this drug is a major breakthrough. please let it be administered o compassionate ground to the nigerian doctor and others too i beg

Anonymous said...

Mehn!!!! United u shall ever be! Thank God shaa! I pray dis works because av been thinking about this Ebola virus all day

Anonymous said...

Oyibo na cloroquine....eyes rolling Nawa!!!!DaJaX

BONARIO NNAGS said...

Wow! I'm happy there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel,wish could should get it down to us over here,before this issue gets out of hand.

~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

Unknown said...

Pls they should give us some

Unknown said...

Hopeful!

DADDYSWIFE said...

Dis still sound like an american movie,am yet to believe together wit dis mice blood treatment,DIS IS SERIOUS ooo!!

AGB said...

This is what we are good at doing....lazying around,doing nothing & always waiting for other people to look for solutions to our own problems. The American government just took a risk to take care of its children (its citizens) and here we have lazy us calling them to bring the drugs to come & dash or what? Those drugs would probably cost fortunes,talkless of the number of people who might have to be treated in countries where this virus has broken out in.
Instead of our useless governments to establish research centres for all things ,we would be stealing money & be calling other people to come & solve our own problems for us. We need to wake up cos I'm tired of us being purposely stupid when we have the abilities to be great.
God Bless Nigeria.

Anonymous said...

Hmmn! A country dat puts it ppl first! I hope its true oh! But if it is, will d Americans accept dat dey rilli have it nd send a batch to Africa ASap! Those Americans r still racist in nature nd am sure dey wudnt care if a bunch of African monkeys die, afterall its a monkey disease!





#GozManuel Says#
Am sure if it finally gets here dat it will cost an arm to get!

Anonymous said...

For me, this shows so many fowl play!, why is it that its when the two Americans got infected that this so called "trial" medications came to surface, there have been thousands of cases before them, why did no one hear anything about a cure.....If this medications was not a hundred percent certified by the US drugs agency, trust me they won't try it out on those two Americans, am beginning to feel some US business men brought this virus down here so they can also bring an expensive way of curing it, am sure when they referred to "Monkeys", they were actually talking to we Africans.

Unknown said...

HALLELUIA PRAISE MASTER JESUS.I COULDNT SLEEP BEFORE BUT NOW I THINK I CAN TRY.US UNA BE WITCH.MORE STRENGTH TO U GUYS.

FUTURE LEADER said...

"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"

Anonymous said...

I pray its true. lovinganna00@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

hello linda, its a crime to copy & paste articles word for word without making reference to the original writers...saw this article on cnn.com this morning.

Cute G said...

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Mena Peters Triflections said...

My dear Africans will keep praying while US researchers will work round the clock to find a solution to the Ebola virus. Sick and lazy continent.

Anonymous said...

We need to emphasize science and push our ppl to study it.

ary said...

Good, I hope it is true, so the world or Africa can have a fighting chance against this disease.

Anonymous said...

Awesome.....i pray this drugs undergoes required inspection as fast as possible

Unknown said...

I pray dis works

Anonymous said...

hello linda, its a crime to copy & paste articles word for word without making reference to the original writers...saw this article on cnn.com this morning.

Amaka.u.l said...

God help us ooo..

Anonymous said...

I like how America will do anything for its citizens. I hope they survive it.

Now let's make that antidote available to all OK?

Kimmy*****

Unknown said...

Thank God I pray it works
FACE OF LIB

Debbie Chelsea said...

If dat's d case,it's gud news

Anonymous said...

Pls come to naija fast o!we have big and plenty mice here to create the vaccine . Somolu,oshodi ,mile12 and lagos island rats are available

Okenol said...

that's why they are the greatest country

purity C said...

Lili go and sleep tomorrow is another day..sweet dreams...#yawning#

Anonymous said...

ABEG! LINDAIKEJI YOU DEY WATCH 'MISSION IMPOSSIBLE- EBOLA PROTOCOL'! I DEY TELL PERSON SAY THIS NEW DISEASE SHEY NO BE SAY .......ABEG MAKE I NO TALK BEFORE DEM SAY CIA DEY AFTER PERSON. HA. OYINBO NA WITCH O.

lazlow said...

Fear white man...anyways,thank God there's a huge progress in fighting this dreadful virus

fly guy said...

I trust yankee sharp sharp, no dulling, research toh bad, our own here na 2 pop champagne and chop ogufe

Unknown said...

see country that works. Our president and politicians are busy fighting dirty over 2015 election. sometimes i ask myself is Nigeria under a curse? i have been living outside Nigeria for almost 4 years now and every sectors works compared to Nigeria.

Anonymous said...

PRAISE D LORD!

Anonymous said...

I am sure that pharm company is behind this spread of the virus...cuz how else wld they have gotten humans to test their vaccines on...mschewww Americans and conspiracy

Unknown said...

Oh tnk God dia improving

Anonymous said...

Well, I hope this Oyinbo people help us to get the Cure down here as it gonna be a big disaster most especially in this over populated Lagos Metropolis #

THIS WORLD HAS TOTALLY SPOILT SEE WHAT THIS 15 YEAR OLD GIRL IS DOING TO 3 ADULT MEN ON BED.

Anonymous said...

USA, a country that will do anything for it's citizens no matter what!

Unknown said...

It is well

Anonymous said...

These damned bastards always had the fucken cure! They are just telling us now because it's all over for them and they had to treat their people.Fucken Americans! Always getting on them last nerves!

Unknown said...

Hope for Africa I guess

winniekoko said...

Thank GOD, they are coming up with something.....i know my GOD will never allow his children to die like this!!

helen said...

so they have the antidote already, i am beginning to think they are experimenting with this ebola thing.

Anonymous said...

Oh God pls help nd protect us ooo

Anonymous said...

Linda this people invented this disease, so they should have the antidote too.

Wolex01v@yahoo.com said...

627 Africans die of Ebola, the world says there is no cure. 2 Americans fall ill of the same disease, a vaccine pops up

Anonymous said...

i dey talk say dis ebola na for lab dey manufacture am, US there is God ooo

Anonymous said...

Too long biko. Dey shuld come hlp africans if dey'v actually gotten a cure. Beckynicks13@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

How come yankee made the drug available like ASAP, yet other people have been dying since yet they pretend to like africa

Unknown said...

Have been praying since I saw the news on CNN n pray it works for real n ♑ terrible side effects

Anonymous said...

I pray for that oo. The world no go end cause of ebola .... Obumnemeudeze@gmail.com

Unknown said...

Hmmmmm....okay o

Anonymous said...

Wow! I pray.... This should be true oh... #beausteven_blog

Anonymous said...

Oo..so twas wen it got to their citizen dy remembered d anti-dote.shiorr !!

Anonymous said...

Pls it should b approved ASAP ooh and given to infected patients at least to buy some time while d side effects are still being studied.

Anonymous said...

THEM GENERATE THE VIRUS... THEM GENERATE THE ANTIDOTE. (God is watching)

Unknown said...

God please I hope this is true, help ur children..Amen


queenreigneth@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

Tell me y u won't wake up in d morning and say GOD BLESS AMERICA... Hw I wish our witches and wizards can bcome more relevant. Rather na anoda man pikin future dem go dey use mirror dey look.... Pls help us wit more options ooo. Gods owned country

Anonymous said...

Ofcourse dey invented these deadly disease, they sure have a cure for it-sheer corporate greed......... Am no longer scared of boko haram, Ebola is the new gangster in the hood.- survival percentage from it is still nil.....#cheEzyjayne

Anonymous said...

Americans r always ahead in everytin. Like say na dem invent dis world. Kudos. Dey will neva watch one of their own die. Jus like dat witout tryin. Only for naija we dey wait make a lot of pple dey b4 findin solutions. U knew ebola outbreak was in liberia. Y invite dem to ur country jona?

Unknown said...

They should kindly help us in africa, pls.

Olubukola Ozone said...

Lets dis ppl render help to us if truly dey av d cure o. Dey shuld pls for God sake

Anonymous said...

Its a drug that hasn't passed its clinical trials and under administered under duress. Let's see what ray of hope it has.



________Fortunedexcel@rediffmail.Com

Anonymous said...

Wow, Lord let this be the cure and may it become available for all affected.
Lord hear our prayers. Amen

Anonymous said...

If this is really a cure......all I have to say is may God be praised.....


XDON D DON

Seun Ajet said...

Why dem no born me in this kain country wey value the lives of their citizens,unlike Nigeria Chibok girls are still missing,GEJ is busy campaigning,Ebola dey other west African countries my president refuses to close/shut down borders. Ok continue

Unknown said...

ok
If they do, they should help Africa out



BORN TO SHINE!!!

Unknown said...

Wow... this is gud news. I only hope its true

Unknown said...

Africans should please wise up,we need to see another dimension to this incident.The infected white doctors were probably in that country claiming to save lives and they knew about the existence of this ZMAPP drug and they never tried it to save an African patient until their own people got infected,shit they will never stop racism

Unknown said...

Lord pls come 2 ur childrens aid oh,we ve no oda home apart 4rm Nigeria so pls let a solution come 2 dz ebola saga.Amen

APPLE said...

Thank God for their lives.

Anonymous said...

Jesus!!!thank u lord 4 this serum,,,I hope things get better n EBOLA is eradicated 4 good#HAPPY. Mz maybay

Leonard Omotayo (Hormortaryo #Frosh) said...

If d cure has been found truly, America will help us... I trust them

Caramel Tessy said...

Okay

Anonymous said...

Let the experiments begin. All the ignorant people that believe in the miracle serum...
Read inbetween the lines. I'm out.

Unknown said...

Na God oh, buh finally God use oyibo bless this world shaun shit make we talk true though say them d 4k up 1nc 1nc buh them d try, date am back nau most life saving medicines nd other stuff dat promotes life where all discovered by them

Anonymous said...

Conspiracy theorists will say it's being left to ravage Africa intentionally. They'll say that every disease has a cure.

Anonymous said...

Thank heavens!!!!!!!!!!!!! That news would have been too bad; I've been dreading hearing the worst. How this our Nigerian doctor wan come take get the Zmapp na? Abeg make dem spare am some. Make we do one trust fund like that BH victims fund when dem GEJ do, so that we go fit contribute money give the company for further sharp, sharp research. Wait o, where is the Ebola test result of that corpse that was sneaked into Anambra from Liberia? Federal Ministry of Health, where dat result? Make people know how things stand o.

OLUMZY said...

Oyinbo will always be Oyinbo. except they're not ready 2 do it.

Anonymous said...

I pray oo, coz dis is rili getting out of hands.
...Bianca T...

Anonymous said...

Let's not be deceive abeg,this guys(whites) always have cure for this diseases they jst need funds for their research on this discoveries which I dnt blame them at all,to read book no easy not to talk of research and carrying out risky experiment on species...AU should make it mandatory for African countries to invest on Research Institutes.
Sholary

linda said...

Oya bring it for us...we black africans have sworn to remain completely dependent on d whites evn 4 survival. Disease originate 4 our side, nd they found d cure for us #smh...do we evn av a research team in naija??!

Anonymous said...

True words! I don't beg but for this the bebe I dey bebe for the world to help Africa is height of begging! All us Africans in diaspora need to implore our "new" countries to help our motherland

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Why are u repeating the same thing severally? If u could only read properly u would have noticed she already gave the credit to Dr Sanjay Gupta in her opening. I suggest u shut up if u've got nothing sensible to contribute.

Alicia says... said...

Dumb ignorant slave. Do you not know why white people have everything they have today from robbing and keeping other countries poor, idiot!

Alicia says... said...

You are a bloody fool. Read between the lines, it was brought to Africa intentionally

Anonymous said...

Make we learn 2 accept it- dem say we be descendants of d pikin wey Noah cursed(God 4bid), Oyibo, make una de wise, we de come after we don finish fighting 4 oil, lands, and oda vain things of d world.

Anonymous said...

Gbam!

Anonymous said...

Ok, if its true let them help out. LIB Princess! Pretex4luv@yahoo.com

Olameedey said...

I really hope tis 4 real.

Mena Peters Triflections said...

You deserve an award!

Mena Peters Triflections said...

Go find a cute yourselves. Americans are humans like us. They spend billions on research while our government steal ours. They owe you nothing. Kmt

Unknown said...

To me this virus is an american designed by one of their so called foolish scientist, tested on ape and it didnt work, now tested on human and specifically in africa and it worked... this is just to obvious. This is rubbish...its the end of the world sha.

iyke heavens said...

Hmm. Business as usual, they created the virus, they have successfully infected Africa. Now they want to sell their drugs. Africa wise up o

ngozy said...

Na only God go save us!make our govt take the necessary steps soon as possible to save the poor doctor that just contacted the ebola and save the family of any loss!

Anonymous said...

If its true let the doctor dat got the virus afta threatin sawyer try it. I pray its the cure


MZ G

Anonymous said...

And they let the black doctor die! Well that's the white man for you. We are monkeys to them. The large pharmaceuticals had this drug all along but will not release it until they have the patent in place. In the meantime, many Africans die. Well I don't blame them. We act like monkeys in a jungle and they treat us likewise.

JNA$$ said...

Wake up from your slumber. Who verified it? You? Get your info right before making bogus assertions.

Anonymous said...

Oh shattap!

MY TURN said...

we are just lazy in this continent of corrupt, greedy leaders. We also have scientists WHAT ARE THEY DOING? No wonder they think we still live in trees.

GENIEATUS said...

I sincerely pray smething gud comes out of this experiment and we get an ending solution to this disease...as for those of you saying America only brought out the cure cos two of their own were infected....ehen and so what? did u pay their school fees abi did u research with them.
if their govt has decided to invest wisely in their health sector and our govt has decided to drain our foreign reserves for election campaign...is it America's fault. abeg free dem o.

if Nigeria says that kolanut can provide a vaccine or cure for the disease then let us do a research and develop it while the Americans develop their Zmapp antidote afterall they dont owe us anything.
Bloody lazy continent riddled with bad leadership!!!!!

PETER said...

They created Ebola and likewise created the vaccine. They send it to highly populated and impoverished continents like ours and later they sell the vaccines to our government for good money, rogues. They said Ebola has never had a cure but within weeks of its outbreak they already have something that looks like a cure because of their own contracted it. We are living in desperate times where anything can be used to make money.

Anonymous said...

Ebola disease is an endtime disease and the only prevention to it is God. G0d said He will jot allow the Egyptian disease come upon His own so if you know God , Ebola is not your portion. 'when the angel of death sees the blood, he will pass over you." Come to Jesus today and be free from Ebola.

Anonymous said...

So @AGB, what's stopping you from taking the initiative? why wait for the government? Americans manufactured diseases they already have cures to! Then they'll bring it to Africa to experiment & make money from UN after it grows to an epidemic. So they now have a cure when their doctors became infected? All this while the disease has been killing people in west African countries, they don't have the secret serum right? Wake up mate! We've been through several stuffs like this! I'm sure the pharmaceutical inc in san Diego is about to make billions of dollars on the "so called breakthrough" for the disease they invented themselves!

Anonymous said...

I'm sure you saw Dr. Sanjay Gupta!

Anonymous said...

This is a lesson for Africa leaders. The budget that the American government allocates to the National Institute of Research to conduct life-saving research is billions of dollars, and this is yielding results. Where is the investment in research by your government in Nigeria? The oil money is in the pocket of a few folks. SMH

Anonymous said...

All i can say is i knew the was a cure all along...let look at it d is a reason y does american doctors went to africa becos dis ebola thing has been here since in the 70's,God wanted it to be
like dat so let us thank God becos i can imagine if d now found d cure,like in a months' tym can jt imagine ow 9ja will be is jt sad.thank u Lord.

nwachukwu said...

how shameful it is dat we depend on westerners to help us in tyms lyk this dose it mean that we cant fight this virus independently ?
so unfortunate

Anonymous said...

You've said it all!!!

Anonymous said...

You've said it all!!!

LEEZ said...

Hmmm Naija wake up ooo!! American jes discovered something! It's well oooo!

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