Does the breakthrough Ebola trial in Congo achieve a 90% survival rate? by Haley Euphemia Praesent

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It shows 90% survival rate, however that might change as more as they continue to trial the two drugs with promise.

While it definitely is effective it is probably still far to early to give solid numbers on effectiveness, and even with a 90% survival rate that is still 10/100 people who get Ebola Virus Disease still end up passing away.

Also I don't know if it is capable of working on other ebolaviruses, the current Kivu Outbreak, and the 2013-2016 West Africa Epidemic was both caused by Ebola ebolavirus (formerly called Zaire ebolavirus) but it isn't the only species, there are 6 species of ebolavirus only 1 of which doesn't cause disease in humans (Reston Virus/Reston ebolavirus [REBOV]) and within each species there might be a handful of different strains so until we see effectiveness against other Ebolaviruses I thitk it is too early to say we have effective treatment for Ebola Virus Disease which can be caused by any of the viruses in the Genus of Ebola with exception to REBOV.

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