Based NIH data, the POTRBLOG team has been able to calculate that Kentucky Bioprocessing has the Rough Order of Magnitude [ROM] emergency capability to produce 97,751 courses of Ebola treatment per month. The lead time to meet this emergency production rate is approximately 5 weeks.
One very concerning bit of information, the ZMAPP treatment has components which are reported to produce one escaped mutant per every twenty non-human primates treated. And, that the escaped mutants do exhibit reversion.
You posted, "One very concerning bit of information, the ZMAPP treatment has components which are reported to produce one escaped mutant per every twenty non-human primates treated. And, that the escaped mutants do exhibit reversion."
ReplyDeleteCan you provide a link to the study/studies which document this?
The information came from the presentation at the 2013 Filovirus conference (linked in the sources above)
DeleteI believe he was referencing this study:
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/138/138ra81.full