Experimental Ebola drug given to 'improving' US aid workers. US aid workers who contracted Ebola in Liberia appear to be improving after receiving an experimental drug, officials have said. Nancy Writebol is on her way to a special isolation ward at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital. Dr Kent Brantly was flown back to the U.S. for treatment on Saturday.
According to a CNN report, quoting a doctor in Liberia, Dr Brantly's condition improved dramatically within an hour of receiving the drug.
Service in Mission (SIM), the Christian aid group that employs Ms Writebol, says she has had two doses of the drug and did not respond as well as Dr Brantly but she is showing "improvement".
Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says clinical trials are to start in September on an Ebola vaccine that has shown promising results. Three companies, the US government and the Public Health Agency of Canada are behind the experimental drug.
"ZMapp was first identified as a drug candidate in January 2014 and has not yet been evaluated for safety in humans. As such, very little of the drug is currently available," Mapp Biopharmaceutical said in a statement."Mapp and its partners are co-operating with appropriate government agencies to increase production as quickly as possible."
Since February, 887 people have died of Ebola in four West African countries.
The World Bank is raising $200m (£120m) in emergency assistance for countries battling to contain the world's deadliest outbreak of Ebola virus since 1997.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says: “These epidemics can happen anywhere. The world community has to respond to put in place those systems that can prevent these kind of outbreaks from happening again. ''We have a
Dang right they do!
The most positive comments that I have heard yet of support for Afrikans in this deadly outbreak other than Germany extending its support to those who has fallen ill with the Ebola virus. The U.S. CDC has now become involved in providing needed resources to help contain and control the virus.
The health infrastructure in these countries are not developed or adequate enough to deal with such an epidemic. With the continual presence of WHO and the millions of dollars given to it over the years with their work in Afrika, one would think that there would be a system put in place to prevent the onset of such a deadly virus and that they should have learned from all the studies and reports they have conducted on the AIDS virus.
The virus is believed to be centered in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There have also been two cases in the Nigerian city of Lagos, where eight people are currently in quarantine and one confirmed report from the US Embassy in Ghana of an unidentified person in a clinic after crossing the borders into Ghana. It has not been said how this individual crossed the borders into Ghana or if any precautions were taken by them after leaving two of the infected countries. It is not known whether this individual is a US citizen.
Ghana's security apparatus and an official of government have prevented America's Delta Airlines from using the country's airport for an evacuation exercise in Liberia deemed to be detrimental to the safety of Ghanians in the wake of an Ebola scare.
America is evacuating its citizens from Liberia because of the outbreak of the Ebola virus. As part of the evacuation plan, Delta Airlines was engaged to airlift the U.S. citizens and it was decided that they should be brought to Ghana before going to the U.S. However, the Ghanaian security apparatus and a government official, who does not want to be named, scuttled the move. “Delta Airlines was fully made aware that Ghana would not allow such an idea to be carried out.
“In fact, Delta Airline was told in plain language that the role Ghana will play will be to allow the airline to refuel in Accra, but not to disembark passengers”, the official said.
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