Prevention who lead the research, said the two treatments were developed based on strains from previous outbreaks and this study was the first to test them on the current one, which researchers are calling the Ituri strain.
“It’s vitally important to make sure existing treatments work against the virus that’s making people sick now,” she said.
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An antiviral drug called remdesivir and another antibody treatment called ZMapp both inhibited the growth of the virus strain in human cells in laboratory studies, according to the paper published in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.
“They’re currently being tested in a clinical trial but we needed to verify and make sure that they were going to be as effective,” she told CNN.
Source: Experimental Ebola treatments effective in lab study
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