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Thai researchers ‘devise cure for Ebola’

Thai researchers ‘devise cure for Ebola’

BANGKOK: A team of doctors from Siriraj Hospital have reportedly made a ground-breaking discovery, being the first in the world to develop a vaccine to cure the deadly Ebola virus.


By National News Bureau of Thailand

Monday 29 September 2014 06:44 PM


Scanning electron micrograph of the Ebola virus. Photo NIAID

Scanning electron micrograph of the Ebola virus. Photo NIAID

A press conference to announce the medical breakthrough is set for Thursday (October 2), to be presided over by Doctor Udom Kachintorn, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the hospital, which is part of Mahidol University.

It is said that researchers were able to develop a special kind of vaccine that would stimulate antibody production to battle the Ebola virus.

The current Ebola outbreak in west Africa has claimed thousands of lives. As of last Tuesday (September 23), 6,574 people in Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Senegal had contracted the disease. Of these, 3,043, or 46 per cent, have died.