Blood transfusions show early promise as possible Ebola cure

A blood transfusion from an Ebola survivor may have helped Kadiatu Fofanah fight off the disease. 

Amy Maxmen

As trials on blood and plasma progress, researchers ask if they might have happened sooner

by Amy Maxmen-February 16, 2015 

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — “Have courage to buckle up,” said the doctor, before he injected blood into the veins of Kadiatu Fofanah, a young woman in the throes of Ebola. It had been a week since Fofanah had doubled over, feverish and vomiting. “I was fading. I was so pale, I thought I would die,” Fofanah recalls.
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