SOT Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of Centers for Disease Control: This is going to be a long, hard fight.” ON CAMERA WITH THOUSANDS NOW INFECTED, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE BEING PLEDGED TO DEVELOP TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR EBOLA. Scenes from ben on the ground - anything that shows scale - rows and rows? “the enemy here is a virus” ON CAMERA HERE’S THREE AVENUES THAT HAVE POTENTIAL BUT ARE A LONG WAY FROM BEING VIABLE TREATMENTS. NOW ON THE NEW YORK TIMES MINUTE. // Three part split screen FIRST, THERE’S ZMAPP. ONE OF A FEW EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS IN THE PIPELINE... IT’S SHOWN THE MOST PROMISE. Inside the lab - close ups etc ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Probably by the end of this year we will have enough information to move onto a larger clinical trial, ON CAMERA IT’S MADE USING TOBACCO PLANTS AND THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FACILITIES, LIKE THIS ONE AT ICON GENETICS IN GERMANY, WITH THE CAPACITY. More inside the lab - maybe a tobacco field ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Investigators and company officials are trying to develop an alternative way to produce it that would allow us to have many more doses much more quickly. ON CAMERA EITHER WAY, SUPPLIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE VERY LIMITED. AT MOST A FEW THOUSAND TREATMENTS BY EARLY NEXT YEAR. ???? LINEAR WIPE Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO assistant director-general. “In terms of plasma, there’s also a lot of movement, a lot of interest” ON CAMERA ANOTHER TREATMENT OPTION IS USING THE BLOOD OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE RECOVERED FROM EBOLA. Ben solomon footage Soundbite from one of the survivors ben talked to Ben solomon footage SURVIVOR’S BLOOD PLASMA CONTAINS TINY ANTIBODIES THAT MAY ATTACK THE VIRUS AND FIGHT OFF AN EBOLA INFECTION. THE IDEA THAT IS A BLOOD TRANSFUSION COULD GET THOSE ANTIBODIES INSIDE SICK PATIENTS. WILL IT WORK? THE W.H.O. HAS SAID IT’S “PLAUSIBLE” BUT SOME VIROLOGISTS DOUBT IT DOES ANYTHING. Hopefully from graphics File photo from a blood transfusion Exterior of WHO Nat pop from a ben solomon footage inside a hospital ON CAMERA LINEAR WIPE THE THIRD OPTION IS A VACCINE. THESE ARE TRIALS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY IN THE THE UK USING HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS. THE VACCINE ITSELF IS MADE USING AN UNRELATED VIRUS FROM A CHIMPANZEE AS A “SPINE.” THAT IS THEN COMBINED WITH SMALL BITS OF THE EBOLA VIRUS. THERE’S NO PROMISE YET THAT IT WILL EVEN WORK AND IF IT DID WOULD ONLY HELP PEOPLE WHO AREN’T CURRENTLY INFECTED. TKTKTK - SOMETHING FROM THE LAB Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO assistant director-general. if everything goes well again we might be able to use some of these vaccines in affected countries at the beginning, the very beginning of next year. ON CAMERA OF ALL THESE OPTIONS, NONE ARE EXPECTED TO BE TREATING LARGE NUMBERS OF PATIENTS UNTIL AT LEAST 2015. Back on the ground - scenes of devastation from ben solomon CLOSE ON SOMETHING FROM THE GROUND FROM BEN SOLOMON ON CAMERA ENDIT