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Experts to Test if Survivors' Serum Can Help Ebola Patients

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Scientists will start testing whether treatment with antibodies in the blood of Ebola survivors can help infected patients fight off the deadly disease in a clinical trial starting in Guinea next month. If effective, so-called convalescent serum could be scaled up quickly as a short-term intervention while work continues to develop drugs and vaccines. An international research consortium led by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp is undertaking the work in the West African...

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