Ebola no longer ‘incurable’ after discovery of two highly effective treatments, scientists say

The drugs, tested in a nearly nine-month clinical trial, have performed so well that health professionals will now administer them to every patient in Congo.

“It’s the first example that a therapeutic intervention can have a dramatic effect on decreasing the mortality of the Ebola virus disease,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In the past, becoming infected with the disease was often considered a death sentence.

Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, a Congolese doctor who has spent his career researching Ebola treatments and oversaw the trial, said in a conference call that he “could not have imagined” that such a day would come.