<story><title>The race to contain West Africa&apos;s Ebola outbreak</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/11/ebola-open-street-map</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mediaman</author><text>There are two companies that have demonstrated cures to the Ebola and Marburg viruses: Tekmira, based in Vancouver BC, and Sarepta, in Boston. Initial data shows that they have 85%-100% cure rates receiving the medicine up to 72hrs from initial exposure, as tested on monkeys.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately a portion of this research was funded by the DoD, which decided to cut funding in 2012 at least for the Sarepta Marburg cure, which significantly slowed down progress and prevented any stockpiling of the medicine.</text></comment>
<story><title>The race to contain West Africa&apos;s Ebola outbreak</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/11/ebola-open-street-map</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timr</author><text>This outbreak is scary because it&amp;#x27;s finally hit a major city in Africa.&lt;p&gt;All you need is for one case to hop on an international flight, and things get much harder to control.</text></comment>