标准voa英语：健康护理专家考虑不同的方法处理埃博拉病毒.doc

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Health Care Specialists Consider Different Treatments for Ebola 健康护理专家考虑不同的方法处理埃博拉病毒
In West Africa, the World Health Organization says the Ebola virus has so far infected over 3,700 people and killed over 1, is no cure for disease, and a potential vaccine could be months, or years, away.
However, some health care professionals are looking at alternative approaches for helping Ebola patients survive the virus.
Sharing antibodies
One option gives an infected patient a transfusion of blood from those who have recovered from plasma, the liquid part of the blood, contains antibodies that have successfully fought off the virus.
The process of separating the plasma – and its antibodiesfrom the blood of survivors is called plasmapheresis.
Recently, an American doctor infected in Liberia, Kent Brantly, received a transfusion from an Ebola , the New York Times cites a professor of virology in Nigeria who says the procedure is being considered using the blood taken from five survivors in the country.
Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says it was used in the 1970's during the first Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, in what was then Zaire – now the De