{"id":45252,"date":"2014-09-06T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T08:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=45252"},"modified":"2014-09-06T06:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T06:46:39","slug":"use-ebola-survivors-blood-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/use-ebola-survivors-blood-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Ebola survivors’ blood – WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"
The blood of patients who recover from Ebola should be used to treat others, the World Health Organization has announced.<\/p>\n
West Africa is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history and more than 2,000 people have died.<\/p>\n
A global group of experts have been meeting to assess the experimental therapies that could contain Ebola.<\/p>\n
The WHO also announced that Ebola vaccines could be used on the frontline by November.<\/p>\n
Blood medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n People produce antibodies in the blood in an attempt to fight off an Ebola infection.<\/p>\n In theory, those antibodies can be transferred from a survivor into a sick patient to give their immune system a boost.<\/p>\n However, large scale data on the effectiveness of the therapy is lacking.<\/p>\n