Are any of 8 experimental drugs the cure for Ebola?

Some 200 health experts from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the merits of 8 experimental treatments and two vaccines against Ebola, the infectious disease which has already killed more than 1,900 in west Africa. A key issue at the Geneva conference was to determine what therapies and vaccines are in the pipeline and how rapidly they can meet the desperate need, given that “the current west African Ebola outbreak is unprecedented in size, complexity, and the strain it has imposed on health systems,” according to the World Health Organization. While WHO said “extraordinary measures” were in place to accelerate the pace of clinical trials on the drugs, it warned that new treatments were not expected to be ready for widespread use before the end of 2014.

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