Two patients with ebola, a mother and son, have been cured using a combination of two drugs, according to a new report.
patients in Congo, which shows that people can recover from the highly lethal disease if it's diagnosed and treated early, doctors say.
"These cases were detected very quickly. The husband was infected, he was at home for 10 days and his wife and son were infected," Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director of Congo's National Institute for Biomedical Research, said at a press conference, the"As soon as the response teams detected these cases, they brought them here to the treatment center. We gave them treatment that is effective and here in a short time both are cured," Muyembe said.
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