A doctor in rural Liberia inundated with Ebola patients says he's had good results with a treatment he tried out of sheer desperation: an HIV drug.Dr. Gorbee Logan has given the drug, Lamivudine, to 15 Ebola patients, and all but two survived. That's about a 13% mortality rate.Across West Africa, the virus has killed 70% of its victims."My stomach was hurting; I was feeling weak; I was vomiting," Elizabeth Kundu, 23, says of her bout with the virus. "They gave me medicine, and I'm feeling fine. We take it, and we can eat -- we're feeling fine in our bodies."Kundu and the other 12 patients who took the Lamivudine and survived. "I'm sure that when patients are presented early, this medicine can help ," Logan said. "I've proven it right in my center."
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