X-Message-Number: 4774 From: Peter Merel <> Subject: CRYONICS Ebola Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 13:33:40 +1000 (EST) Keith F. Lynch <> writes, >I suspect that Ebola is a relatively simple problem (at least compared >to cancer, AIDS, aging, ischemia, and freezing damage) in that many >Ebola patients survive unscathed. All we have to do is figure out >what's going on in their bodies to make this possible, and replicate >the effect in other patients' bodies. There was a report on the PRO-MED list that a team in Zaire has been able to greatly increase the survival rate in Ebola victims simply by injecting them with serum taken from those who survived naturally. I forget the exact stats, but it raised the survival rate to something like 90%. So it sounds like this plague, at least, is manageable. -- Internet: | Accept Everything. | http://www.usyd.edu.au/~pete/ | Reject Nothing. | Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4774