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Table 6.

Treatment Used for Pandemic Diseases.^*

Disease	Treatment
Smallpox	Tecovirimat^†
Measles	Vitamin A
Plague	Doxycycline^‡
Cholera	Massive rehydration; doxycycline (in adults)^‡; azithromycin (in children)^‡
Yellow fever	None
Influenza H1N1	Oseltamivir^§
Influenza H3N2	Oseltamivir^§
Influenza H2N2	Oseltamivir^§
AIDS	>20 antiviral drugs grouped in 8 classes and >40 combinations of two or more drugs
SARS	None
Ebola	REGN-EB3^**
MERS	None
COVID-19	Remdesivir^††

^*Only approved drugs are included.

^†Never used in humans. Two million doses stockpiled in the US, in case of bioterror attack.

^‡Other effective antibiotics available.

^§Other effective antivirals available.

^**Includes three types of antibodies.

^††Several other antivirals under investigation.

AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; H1N1, hemagglutinin-1 neuraminidase-1; H2N2, hemagglutinin-2 neuraminidase-2; H3N2, hemagglutinin-3 neuraminidase-2; MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2020 July; 11(3): e0027. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2020 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10418