Friday 5 December 2014

Simple intravenous fluid could save many Ebola patients, specialists say

Patients being treated for Ebola are pictured at the Island Clinic in Monrovia LONDON (Reuters) - Simple intravenous fluid drips could save the lives of many West African Ebola patients, but are being neglected because of a perception that there is no effective treatment for the disease, specialist doctors said on Friday. "Ebola treatment centres must be more than just a setting for quarantine," Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Anders Perner of Copenhagen University wrote in the journal The Lancet. "Patients will be reluctant to attend treatment centres unless the care they receive ... ...




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