Resumen de As ebola epidemic draws to a close, a thin scientific harvest
As the Ebola epidemic exploded in the summer of 2014, a frenzied effort began to test vaccines and drugs in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. But so far, results from just one clinical trial have appeared in a peer-reviewed journal; it showed Merck's Ebola to be remarkably successful. A dozen other trials have yet to be published. Many didn't deliver a clear answer because they failed to enroll the planned number of participants. Others did recruit enough patients but didn't use a randomized controlled trial design, which weakened results. Still others were halted early. One last hope for an uplifting result remains: an ongoing study of ZMapp, a promising antibody cocktail.