Can an Experimental Therapy Be Used to Treat Ebola?
12:14 minutes
Two Americans received an experimental treatment after they became infected with Ebola while working with patients in West Africa. Heinz Feldmann, chief of the Laboratory of Virology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for the Global Health Council on Foreign Relations, discuss how the serum works and if it should be used more widely.
For more about the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, listen to our segment from last week.
Segment Guests
Heinz Feldmann
Heinz Feldmann is chief of the laboratory of virology at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories at the National Institutes of Health in Hamilton, Montana.
Laurie Garrett
Laurie Garrett is a journalist and author with the Anthropos Initiative in New York, New York.
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