利比里亚医生用抗 HIV 药治疗埃博拉获奇效A doctor who was used anti-HIV medication to treat Ebola out of desperation after being inundated1 with patients, has reported positive results.利比里亚一医生“兵行险着”，启用抗 HIV 药物进行治疗，不料竟获奇效。 Dr Gobee Logan gave the drug lamivudine to 15 Ebola patients in a clinic in Tubmanburg, and 13 survived. This gives patients treated with lamivudine a 7% mortality rate, whereas overall mortality rates for those infected are 70%. "My stomach was hurting; I was feeling weak; I was vomiting," Ebola patient Elizabeth Kundu, 23, told CNN. "They gave me medicine, and I'm feeling fine. We take it, and we can eat – we're feeling fine in our bodies." Those patients who survived after taking lamivudine, took the medication during the first five days of infection. The two who died started treatment five and eight days after onset2 of the illness. "I'm sure that when [patients] present early, this medicine can help," Logan said. "I've proven it right in my center." Logan said that he was aware that the medical establishment would remain sceptical until research had been undertaken involving a much larger group of patients, half of whom would be given lamivudine, and the other half a placebo3. "Our people are dying and you're taking about studies?" he said. "It's a matter of doing all that I can do as a doctor to save some people's lives." He said that he decided4 to try using lamivudine after reading in a medical journal that HIV and Ebola replicates5 in the body in similar ways. Initially6 Logan tried the drug on a colleague who had become infected, and within two days he showed signs of improvement and survived. Researchers at the National Institute of...
