“THERE IS NO TREATMENT, THERE IS NO CURE” …well, that is not entirely true.             The heroic organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the physicians at other Ebola treatment units (ETUs) in West Africa provide a minimal form of treatment called “supportive care” for patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD). This includes keeping patients hydrated with water containing electrolytes, giving antibiotic drugs to help prevent secondary infections, painkillers and antimalarial drugs. This increases an Ebola patient’s chance of survival from only 10% in the absence of such care, to an average of 45%. But basic supportive care does not include any drug therapy targeted directly at the virus itself – no antiviral medication.                Two days after I arrived in Monrovia, Liberia from South Africa for the s...