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9 facts on Zmapp drug — the ‘Ebola cure’

5. Did doctors know it would work?

No. The drug had shown promise in primates, but even in those experiments, just eight monkeys received the treatment. In any case, the human immune system can react differently than primates’, which is why drugs are required to undergo human clinical trials before being approved by government agencies for widespread use.

The two Americans’ cases will be studied further to determine how the drug worked with their immune systems.

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