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SUBMITTER: Sissoko D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4773183 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

PLoS medicine 20160301 3
<h4>Background</h4>Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a highly lethal condition for which no specific treatment has proven efficacy. In September 2014, while the Ebola outbreak was at its peak, the World Health Organization released a short list of drugs suitable for EVD research. Favipiravir, an antiviral developed for the treatment of severe influenza, was one of these. In late 2014, the conditions for starting a randomized Ebola trial were not fulfilled for two reasons. One was the perception that, ...[more]