{"id":114602,"date":"2020-10-17T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/first-ebola-therapy-approved-by-the-fda"},"modified":"2020-10-17T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T14:22:31","slug":"first-ebola-therapy-approved-by-the-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/first-ebola-therapy-approved-by-the-fda","title":{"rendered":"First Ebola therapy approved by the FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ebola-therapy-approved-by-the-fda2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, an Ebola therapy has been approved for use. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Inmazeb, an antibody cocktail made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p>With the approval, there are now both a vaccine \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/12\/19\/fda-approves-an-ebola-vaccine-long-in-development-for-the-first-time\/\">Merck\u2019s Ervebo<\/a> \u2014 and a therapeutic to battle Ebola Zaire, tools that for decades were out of reach for Ebola, which is one of the deadliest infections known to humankind. There is currently an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the third in the last three years in that country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time the FDA has approved a treatment specifically for Ebola, which has caused a number of deadly outbreaks,\u201d said George Yancopoulos, Regeneron\u2019s president and chief scientific officer, in a statement. \u201cAs we apply the same sophisticated technologies and manufacturing capabilities against COVID-19, we hope this will be one of many demonstrations of how the power of science can be successfully deployed against dangerous infectious diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an Ebola therapy has been approved for use. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Inmazeb, an antibody cocktail made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. With the approval, there are now both a vaccine \u2014 Merck\u2019s Ervebo \u2014 and a therapeutic to battle Ebola Zaire, tools that for decades were out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}