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SCIENCE to the rescue in West Africa? The World 91色情片 Organization is launching an emergency programme to test experimental treatments on people who have Ebola, in a bid to stem the epidemic. The move will get round regulatory barriers that have so far stopped one promising drug that is almost fully tested from being used in the epidemic.
鈥淭his is absolutely unprecedented,鈥� said Marie-Paule Kieny, head of innovation at the WHO, after a meeting of drug developers and African health authorities approved the plan on 5 September in Geneva, Switzerland. 鈥淲e must move as fast as possible.鈥�
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Ethical guidelines allow treatments that haven鈥檛 been fully tested and approved to be used to try and save lives 鈥� as long as information is gathered to help establish whether the treatment works. The Geneva meeting agreed to test two experimental vaccines and a handful of other treatments on this basis, including giving patients blood from Ebola survivors.
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