Doctor Gains Success Treating Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia

 

A doctor in rural Liberia,Dr. Gobee Logan says he's had good results with a treatment he tried on Ebola patients out of sheer desperation with an HIV drug.
According to cnn.com , Dr. Gobee Logan has given the drug, lamivudine, to 15 Ebola patients, and all but two survived. That's a 7% mortality rate.
Logan is mindful that lamivudine can cause liver and other problems, but he says it's worth the risk since Ebola is so deadly.

Logan said he got the idea to try lamivudine when he read in scientific journals that HIV and Ebola replicate inside the body in much the same way.

"Ebola is a brainchild of HIV," he said. "It's a destructive strain of HIV."

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