Some experts are trying a new and unusual treatment for the deadly Ebola virus: blood transfusions from survivors.
When the body produces antibodies to fight off a virus, they stay in the blood to fight off that foreign virus if it ever comes back into the system.
It's not certain if the antibodies in the blood of Ebola survivors will work on patients, but being that there are no approved vaccines for the disease thus far, experts say the blood transfusion is worth trying, reports The Associated Press.
Dr. Peter Piot, Director of London's School of Hygene and Tropical Medicine and the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, told AP that these blood transfusion treatments are also easy for the doctors to perform.
The World Health Organization is currently having a two-day discussion in Geneva with 200 health experts to decide which treatments should be tested first during this outbreak. The blood of survivors is one of the dozen treatments being discussed at the meeting, which starts today.
