{"id":87242,"date":"2019-01-30T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-ebola-vaccine-effective-in-trials-with-primates-ferrets"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:33:35","slug":"new-ebola-vaccine-effective-in-trials-with-primates-ferrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-ebola-vaccine-effective-in-trials-with-primates-ferrets","title":{"rendered":"New Ebola vaccine effective in trials with primates, ferrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ebola-vaccine-effective-in-trials-with-primates-ferrets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jan. 10 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists have developed a single dose treatment that has shown promise for combating all forms of the Ebola virus, a study says.<\/p>\n<p>The new medication successfully blocked a strain of the deadly virus in nonhuman primates and ferrets, according to a study <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-host-microbe\/fulltext\/S1931-3128(18)30632-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1931312818306322%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\">published Thursday<\/a> in the journal Cell Host &amp; Microbe.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, a two-antibody combination called MBP134, was successful against several strains of Ebola, including the Zaire strain behind the current months-long outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/New-Ebola-vaccine-effective-in-trials-with-primates-ferrets\/1001547129022\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/New-Ebola-vaccine-effective-in-trials-wi...547129022\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 10 (UPI) \u2014 Scientists have developed a single dose treatment that has shown promise for combating all forms of the Ebola virus, a study says. The new medication successfully blocked a strain of the deadly virus in nonhuman primates and ferrets, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Cell Host &amp; Microbe. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87242","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}