Liberia deciding who gets scarce Ebola drugs

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MONROVIA, Liberia - Liberian officials faced a difficult choice Thursday: deciding which handful of Ebola patients will receive an experimental drug that could prove life-saving, ineffective or even harmful.

ZMapp, the untested Ebola drug, arrived in the West African country late Wednesday. Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said three or four people would begin getting it Thursday, although another health official said there was only enough for three people.

The government had previously said two doctors would receive the treatment, but it was unclear who else would.

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Re: Liberia deciding who gets scarce Ebola drugs

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/w...workers-get-experimental-ebola-drug.html?_r=0


Three Liberian Health Workers Get Experimental Ebola Drug
By SHERI FINKAUG. 16, 2014

Three Liberian health care workers who have Ebola received an extremely scarce experimental serum on Friday at a hospital outside the national capital, Monrovia, a Liberian health official said Saturday.

Tolbert G. Nyenswah, an assistant minister of health and social welfare, would not say if any of the three were doctors...

 

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Re: Liberia deciding who gets scarce Ebola drugs

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28860204

19 August 2014 Last updated at 13:25 ET
Ebola crisis: Doctors in Liberia 'recovering after taking ZMapp'

Three doctors in Liberia with Ebola who started taking an experimental drug last Thursday are showing remarkable signs of improvement, a minister says...