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Thursday 14 Jan 2016 - 14:14 Makkah mean time-4-4-1437
Russia develps most effective Ebola drug (Image fro RT)
Moscow (IINA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia has registered a new Ebola drug that appears to be more effective than all of the other medicines currently being used to treat the disease, Russia Today (RT) reported.
“We have registered a medicine for the Ebola fever that, after a series of tests, demonstrates high effectiveness. Its effectiveness is higher than that of those remedies that are used in the world up to now,” Putin was quoted by TASS as saying during a meeting with the Cabinet.
For his part, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said in the meeting Russia has developed and registered two separate Ebola vaccines, both of which surpass their counterparts in effectiveness, with one of the medicines designed specifically for people with immunodeficiency.
“In December, Russia registered two Ebola fever vaccines, which were developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and tested in cooperation with the Health and Defense ministries,” she said.
Skvotsova added that one of the vaccines is absolutely unique and has no analogues in the world, and that it provides 100 percent immunity to the disease, stressing that the second vaccine for people with immunodeficiency also surpasses its British counterpart in efficiency.
According to the minister, the west-African country of Guinea, where the latest outbreak of the disease took place, has already addressed Russia, asking for its help in dispensing the new medicines on its territory “in the coming months.”
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