Cures for HIV & Ebola on the horizon

We may soon have vaccinations for the two Pandemics

Both these pandemics have been around for about 40 years and healthcare professionals around the world have had a hard time decoding these viruses. While the first known cases of Ebola were reported in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, HIV/AIDS first came to limelight in 1981.

Ebola has been periodically infecting people in several African countries, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, however, has been a much more deadly one causing 65 million infections and 25 million deaths according to the Center of Disease Control (CDC) in the US. There is the hope of curing these diseases with the survival rate of the recent breakthrough vaccinations.

Monoclonal Antibody (Ebola)

ZMapp, used in the most recent Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea & Remdesivir has been dropped in favor of the two new monoclonal antibodies, which block the virus much more effectively. All future Ebola treatments will be using these two monoclonal antibody drugs extensively. Two versions of these drugs have been produced — one by Regeneron & the other one by Ridgeback Biotherapeutics.

Anthony Fauci, the director of the US NIAID reported the following mortality rates…