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By Maggie Fox
An experimental drug cured monkeys infected with a close relative of Ebola virus even after they began showing symptoms ? the first time such a drug has been shown to work so many days after infection.
The drug, being developed by a Canadian company called Tekmira, saved the lives of 16 monkeys given highly lethal doses of Marburg virus, the researchers report in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Five monkeys that did not get the drug all died within a week.
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An experimental drug cured monkeys infected with a close relative of Ebola virus even after they began showing symptoms ? the first time such a drug has been shown to work so many days after infection.
The drug, being developed by a Canadian company called Tekmira, saved the lives of 16 monkeys given highly lethal doses of Marburg virus, the researchers report in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Five monkeys that did not get the drug all died within a week.
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