Blood in Patients Cured of Ebola Hunted in Black Market, 'Miracle Drug'?

Outbreaks of Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Nearly 5,000 people exposed to the virus in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, and Senegal - not including the escape of recording. At least 2,400 human lives lost due to this deadly virus.

At the moment the hospital and paramedics fought to give care, a number of patients who were desperately seeking alternative ways: purchase the blood of people who recover from Ebola in the black market. This was stated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The blood of those who have recovered from the ebola virs, called convalescent serum, believed to contain antibodies that can fight the deadly virus. Although not yet have proof medically, believed to cure incurable diseases such.

"Studies indicate blood transfusion from patients who recover may prevent or treat Ebola virus infection in others, but it is still difficult to menginterpretrasikan results of the study," the WHO revealed as quoted by CNN on Thursday (09/18/2014).

"It is also not known whether antibody in the plasma of the survivors enough to treat or prevent the disease. Clearly further research is absolutely necessary."

Serum from survivors of Ebola has been used to treat a number of patients, including medical workers from the United States, Rick Sacra, who were hospitalized Omaha, Nebraska. He was getting blood Kent Brantly, fellow Americans who survived the Ebola. Both are equally infected while helping patients in Liberia.

Illegal trade
Unlike the case in Nebraska, patients infected countries get it from illegal sources. Instead of curing, the illicit trade can actually spread the infection, including HIV and other blood-related diseases, so recovery is not necessarily but it is definitely infected with other diseases.
"We need to work more closely with the affected countries to prevent the illicit trade it for two reasons," said WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, in a statement. That the serum was not through appropriate standards and potentially contain other infections.

Health experts have declared the Ebola status as a 'global emergency' and criticized the international community's response is very weak.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday, announced that his country would send troops and material to build a field hospital, medical workers also to the countries affected. The United States also will build a facility to train health workers to identify and treat patients ebola.

             
"Today, many men, women, and children suffer in silence, waiting for death to pick them up," Obama said. "If the epidemic is not stopped now, we could lose hundreds or even thousands of people who are infected - which will have implications on the political, economic, and security for all of us."

Moreover, there are concerns that the Ebola virus could mutate into a form that is more dangerous and deadly.

Ebola is currently transmitted from contact with body fluids. If it gets mutated, it is quite possible that the virus spread through the air - which would be disastrous for the people all over the world.