First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC

The race against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo just accelerated. Two experimental drugs are now in trials in the Ituri region—with first patients enrolled just six weeks after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency. There's no approved treatment available yet, but scientists hope one of these drugs could reduce mortality rates. The Guardian reports this six-week timeline represents record-breaking pace for research of this scale.

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