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Russia has registered a new Ebola drug that appears to be more effective than all of the other medicines currently being used to treat the disease, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during a meeting with the Cabinet.
"We have registered a medicine for the Ebola fever that, after a series of tests, demonstrates high effectiveness. Its effectiveness is higher than that of those remedies that are used in the world up to now," the Russian president said, as quoted by TASS.
Russia has developed and registered two separate Ebola vaccines, both of which surpass their counterparts in effectiveness, with one of the medicines designed specifically for people with immunodeficiency, Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said during the meeting.
"In December, Russia registered two Ebola fever vaccines, which were developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and tested in cooperation with the Health and Defense ministries," Skvotsova said, as quoted by TASS.
"One of the vaccines is absolutely unique and has no analogues in the world. It provides 100 percent immunity to the disease," she added, stressing that the second vaccine for people with immunodeficiency also surpasses its British counterpart in efficiency.
Comment: Tragic. One wonders if the
guinea pigsstudy subjects truly knew what they were getting themselves in for? If they truly grokked the risk for death or serious injury would they have signed up? Also worth noting: Touraine later said that the pill did not contain cannabis or its derivatives but acted on the body's endocannabinoid system. Is the article just confusion or are they trying to develop and test a synthetic alternative? Or one of the 85+ cannabinoids isolated from cannabis? Is it something else entirely? Cannabinoids are a class of diverse chemical compounds that act on cannabinoid receptors in cells that repress neurotransmitter release in the brain. Ligands for these receptor proteins include the endocannabinoids that are produced naturally in humans and animals.