Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Lack of Evidence for Ribavirin Treatment of Lassa Fever in Systematic Review of Published and Unpublished Studies1
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![Estimated effects of ribavirin compared with no treatment on mortality outcomes from the McCormick (11) and IND 16666 (Birch & Davis Associates and Sherikon Inc., US Army Medical Research and Development Command, unpub. data, https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2019/03/Responsive_Documents_of_Peter_Horby.pdf.pdf; G.V. Ludwig, pers. comm., 2019 March 4, https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2019/03/Dr._Ludwig_memo.pdf) studies in a systematic review of published and unpublished studies for evidence for ribavirin treatment of Lassa fever. A horizontal line represents the 95% CI of a study result, with each end of the line representing the boundaries. A point estimate of the study result is represented by a black diamond. A gray box gives a representation of the size of a study compared with all studies in the figure.](/eid/images/21-1787-F3.jpg)
Figure 3. Estimated effects of ribavirin compared with no treatment on mortality outcomes from the McCormick (11) and IND 16666 (Birch & Davis Associates and Sherikon Inc., US Army Medical Research and Development Command, unpub. data, https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2019/03/Responsive_Documents_of_Peter_Horby.pdf.pdf; G.V. Ludwig, pers. comm., 2019 March 4, https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2019/03/Dr._Ludwig_memo.pdf) studies in a systematic review of published and unpublished studies for evidence for ribavirin treatment of Lassa fever. A horizontal line represents the 95% CI of a study result, with each end of the line representing the boundaries. A point estimate of the study result is represented by a black diamond. A gray box gives a representation of the size of a study compared with all studies in the figure.
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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the World Health Organization Emergency Program on December 21, 2019.