• Question: can you cure ebola

    Asked by 278thuc22 to Claire, Ryan, Mako, Ruth on 26 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by lo.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 26 Jun 2015:


      Hopefully! I haven’t followed the stories much but there are trials going on trying to cure it. It is definitely curable it’s trying to stop it spreading which is the main issue.

    • Photo: Ruth Elderfield

      Ruth Elderfield answered on 26 Jun 2015:


      At the moment we don’t have a cure, there are drug trials happening at the moment. In the meantime, the Doctors and nurses are treating patients to make their bodies as strong as possible (food and water) so that their immune systems can fight off the virus.
      They are also trying to make a vaccine to stop the virus surviving in the body in the first place. The first work on that looks good, but they still have a lot more work to do.

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