Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan remains in critical but stable condition at a Texas hospital, officials said Tuesday. 'He is on a ventilator and receiving kidney dialysis. His liver function, which declined over the weekend, has improved, but doctors caution that this could vary in coming days,' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said in a statement. 'He will continue to receive the investigational medication brincidofovir.'
Ashoka Mukpo, the freelance NBC camera operator who is being treated for Ebola at Nebraska Medical Center, is also getting brincidofovir, a twice-a-week pill that's been approved for experiment use in their cases. The drug's been tested against several other viruses, also. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health officials were due to hold a briefing later Tuesday.
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- Maggie FoxFirst published October 7 2014, 11:42 AM
