Ebola virus cured … in monkeys

Ebola is a virus which causes a very deadly disease. Out of every 10 people who get Ebola, on average five to nine die. People who get infected with Ebola virus get the disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The Ebola virus looks like this:

In a scientific breakthrough, monkeys infected with the deadly Ebola virus have been treated successfully, possibly bringing humans a step closer to a cure.

According to a new study, a team of scientists used special gene-silencing drugs to stop the disease. Basically, the gene silencing drugs stops the Ebola virus genes from working so that the virus can no longer replicate inside the hosts body. Read more here.

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