Canada Leads The Way On Ebola Experimental Drugs: ZMapp, TKM-Ebola And VSV-EBOV

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Source: ibtimes

Kobinger worked with a team of researchers in collaboration with Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., based in San Diego, to develop ZMapp, the drug used to treat American aid worker Kent Brantly, as well as Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse who recently contracted the disease. But they're not the only Canadians working on Ebola.

Another promising drug candidate, TKM-Ebola, which has been used to treat American physician Rick Sacra and other patients, was developed by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company has been working on Ebola research for many years, thanks largely to funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, and has seen its stock jump during the recent outbreak.



Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/canada-leads-way-ebola-experimental-drugs-zmapp-tkm-ebola-vsv-ebov-1704995

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A Kentucky company, Kentucky BioProcessing, has gone into full-scale production of ZMapp.
(Two Americans, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, recovered from Ebola after being given the ZMapp drug.)

In addition to these, a Chinese drugmaker who has JK-05, their own product approved for use in certain emergency cases.

This, plus earlier news that Nigeria is getting a Japanese drug named Favipiravir developed by Fujifilm Holdings.

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Glad to see so many avenues out there already in the works given that a lot of news media love to feed off the frenzy of bad news vs. promising news.

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1. So it wasn't Obama. It's the Chinese Canadians, in a backdoor plot to conquer us.

That other was just a crazy conspiracy theory.

That post is good news, perhaps. I want to see what the long term is. I think one who was a success of one of the experimental cures is back in the hospital, so it may not be all it is cracked up to be, just yet. Or it may leave other areas compromised, or...

It's new in this use.

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2. this NBC article was interesting on the blood sharing

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/why-cant-we-have-more-magic-blood-ebola-n225536

Dr. Brantly has now donated about a gallon of his own blood to other Ebola patients!

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4. I hope it helps. The article said the experimental drug has been tried on 7 people.

Not exactly inspiring, but at this point you do the best you can with what you have and go from there.

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6. Do you have to have already survived Ebola for the blood to be effective?

If people who've never had it donate, does that blood still build up the necessary antibodies when given to an infected patient? Or is it like chicken pox or measles where if you get it once, your body builds up resistance and you never get it again?

I'm thinking of giving some blood to help out with the efforts is why.

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3. Of the companies, I reckon that Fujifilm

is the only one big enough to scale up manufacturing rather quickly. Interesting that Favipiravir has been around for a while.

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5. You mean Canadian politicians gave the monetary resources

to actual people trying to find cures, but American (GOP) politicians cut money more than 1/2. go figure.