09-01-2016 19:04 via krqe.com

Study: Ebola survivors’ blood didn’t help patients in Guinea

LONDON (AP) — Giving the blood of Ebola survivors to patients didn’t seem to make a difference, doctors found in the biggest study so far on the approach, prompting some scientists to say it’s time to abandon the strategy.
With no licensed treatment for the devastating disease, doctors have sometimes used blood from survivors to treat the sick, hoping its infection-fighting antibodies might help patients defeat the virus. It seemed to help some patients in the past but there wa
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