Scientists Claim Drug Designed to Beat Ebola Also Fights Off Nipah

നിപ്പയെ എതിരിടാന്‍ എബോള മരുന്ന് കൂട്ടുപിടിച്ച് ഗവേഷകര്‍.
നിപ്പയെക്കാള്‍ മുന്നൈ ലോകത്തെ വിരട്ടിയ എബോളയ്‌ക്കെതിരായ പ്രതിരോധ മരുന്നായിരുന്നു റെംഡിസിവിര്‍ ഇതിപ്പോ നിപ്പയ്‌ക്കെതിരെയും ഉപയോഗിക്കാനാകുമെന്ന് വിദഗ്ധര്‍

the antiviral drug #remdesivir protected the monkeys from lethal doses of Nipah virus, for which there is no approved vaccine or cure. Scientists are also testing the drug against the #Ebola virus, which has resurfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An experimental monoclonal antibody is the only available treatment for a Nipah virus infection. It was tested during an outbreak in India last year. The virus gets its name from the first place it was detected in, Kampung Sungai Nipah in Malaysia, in 1998. Fruit bats are the natural hosts of the virus, while pigs are intermediate hosts.

The WHO’s fact sheet on the virus says it can be transmitted to humans from animals (bats, pigs), and can also be transmitted from one human to another. In 2001, a Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal killed 45 persons. A #Nipah virus infection can cause encephalitis and pneumonia and is lethal in about 70% of cases.

In the new trial, scientists gave a lethal dose of Nipah virus to eight African green monkeys. Four of them were given intravenous remdesivir, the experimental drug, and survived. The other four monkeys that did not get the drug died within eight days.

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