The New York Times By ANDREW POLLACK The doctor who had been leading Sierra Leone’s battle against the Ebola outbreak was now fighting for his own life, and his international colleagues faced a fateful decision: whether to give him a drug that had never before been tested on people. Would the drug, known as ZMapp, help the stricken
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Drugs A vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus could become a reality in less than a year, one expert says. As the death toll in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa nears 1,000, several groups of scientists are racing to produce a vaccine to protect against the disease. And the developer of one of these
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BBC A Liberian woman weeps over the death of a relative from Ebola on the outskirts of Monrovia The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the spread of Ebola in West Africa an international health emergency. WHO officials said a coordinated international response was essential to stop and reverse the spread of the virus. The
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TV360 Nigeria US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, where the outbreak of the virus has hit the most. US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West
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TV360 Nigeria US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, where the outbreak of the virus has hit the most. US President Barack Obama has said it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West
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CNN By Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Danielle Dellorto, (CNN) - It’s a story that could have come from a cinematic medical thriller: Two American missionary workers contract Ebola. Their situation is dire. Three vials containing a highly experimental drug are flown into Liberia in a last-ditch effort to save them. And the drug flown in last
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Professor John Ashton accuses pharmaceutical industry of ‘moral bankruptcy’ Doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières treat a patient suspected to have the Ebola virus in 2007 in Congo By JANE MERRICK The Independent Britain’s leading public health doctor today blames the failure to find a vaccine against the Ebola virus on the “moral bankruptcy” of the
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By Tim Mansel BBC News, Sierra Leone Information poster about Ebola As West African nations try to stop the deadly Ebola virus from spreading, people living in the affected countries are nervous. In Sierra Leone, communities are keeping a close eye on the exact locations where the disease has emerged. The posters are crudely drawn
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WHO Key facts Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%. EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests. The virus is transmitted to people from wild
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