New Ebola Drug 100% Effective In Monkeys 129
TrisexualPuppy writes "A team of scientists at Boston University has created a cure for the Ebola virus, first discovered in 1976. After setting the correct dosages, all monkeys tested with the vaccine survived with only mild effects. No tests have been performed on humans yet, as outbreaks happen infrequently and are difficult to track. Quoting NPR: '[The drug] contains snippets of RNA derived from three of the virus's seven genes. That "payload" is packaged in protective packets of nucleic acid and fat molecules. These little stealth missiles attach to the Ebola virus's replication machinery, "silencing" the genes from which they were derived. That prevents the virus from making more viruses.'"
Remember (Score:5, Funny)
News, for Monkeys . . . (Score:3, Funny)
. . . and now, on BBC, "News for Parrots"
"No parrots were injured in Ebola tests . . ."
Re:Human testing (Score:3, Funny)
how many monkeys (Score:3, Funny)
how many monkeys did they test? 12?
Re:Human testing (Score:2, Funny)
That is stupid. No animal is worth more than another animal, humans included.
You want to solve a human problem? Use humans.
Wow... Someone needs to be taken for a walk
Pool's closed. (Score:3, Funny)
they die very, very quickly if exposed to many common environmental stressors other germs resist, for example, pool Chlorine
Then explain why, at the hotel near me, the pool was closed due to AIDS.