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Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola outbreak: 730 clinical cases including 315 deaths as of August 9, 2014 (WHO)
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola outbreak: 730 clinical cases including 315 deaths as of August 9, 2014 (WHO)
As African Medics Die of Ebola, Debate Over Drugs
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ? Aug 13, 2014, 12:09 PM ET
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY and MARIA CHENG Associated Press
A leading physician in Sierra Leone's fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said Wednesday, as it emerged that another top doctor last month was considered for an experimental treatment.
Ultimately, doctors decided against using the drug and he died before he could be airlifted out of the country. There was very little of the experimental treatment available, which has stoked debate about ethics on who should get it even though it hasn't been tested in humans. There is no way of knowing if the drug, known as ZMapp, made a difference in the few people who have gotten the now-exhausted supply of the drug.
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Doctors considered giving ZMapp to Sheik Humarr Khan, the chief doctor treating Ebola in Sierra Leone who had come down with the deadly disease, but eventually decided against it "after taking (his) clinical and treatment conditions into account," officials at the World Health Organization said in an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
WHO then tried to arrange airlifting Khan out of the country, but "his condition had deteriorated too much to be transported safely." He died July 29.
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Highlighting how dangerous the response of health workers is, yet another doctor in Sierra Leone, Modupeh Cole, died on Wednesday, according to Sidie Yayah Tunis, director of communications for the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. Cole, trained in the U.S., was one of the top doctors working in the Ebola isolation ward in Connaught Hospital in Freetown, the capital. He tested positive for the disease last week and was transferred to the eastern district of Kailahun, where Doctors Without Borders is running a treatment center.
Cole's sickness spread fear throughout the hospital where he worked, and staff there went on strike Friday and Saturday after learning that he had tested positive for the deadly disease. They returned to work on Sunday.
Both Cole's and Khan's deaths are a major blow to Sierra Leone's health system, which is struggling to cope with the deadly outbreak.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSt...-sierra-leone-doctor-24958782?singlePage=true
Re: Sierra Leone - Ebola outbreak: 730 clinical cases including 315 deaths as of August 9, 2014 (WHO)
As African Medics Die of Ebola, Debate Over Drugs
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone ? Aug 13, 2014, 12:09 PM ET
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY and MARIA CHENG Associated Press
A leading physician in Sierra Leone's fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said Wednesday, as it emerged that another top doctor last month was considered for an experimental treatment.
Ultimately, doctors decided against using the drug and he died before he could be airlifted out of the country. There was very little of the experimental treatment available, which has stoked debate about ethics on who should get it even though it hasn't been tested in humans. There is no way of knowing if the drug, known as ZMapp, made a difference in the few people who have gotten the now-exhausted supply of the drug.
...
Doctors considered giving ZMapp to Sheik Humarr Khan, the chief doctor treating Ebola in Sierra Leone who had come down with the deadly disease, but eventually decided against it "after taking (his) clinical and treatment conditions into account," officials at the World Health Organization said in an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
WHO then tried to arrange airlifting Khan out of the country, but "his condition had deteriorated too much to be transported safely." He died July 29.
...
Highlighting how dangerous the response of health workers is, yet another doctor in Sierra Leone, Modupeh Cole, died on Wednesday, according to Sidie Yayah Tunis, director of communications for the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. Cole, trained in the U.S., was one of the top doctors working in the Ebola isolation ward in Connaught Hospital in Freetown, the capital. He tested positive for the disease last week and was transferred to the eastern district of Kailahun, where Doctors Without Borders is running a treatment center.
Cole's sickness spread fear throughout the hospital where he worked, and staff there went on strike Friday and Saturday after learning that he had tested positive for the deadly disease. They returned to work on Sunday.
Both Cole's and Khan's deaths are a major blow to Sierra Leone's health system, which is struggling to cope with the deadly outbreak.
...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSt...-sierra-leone-doctor-24958782?singlePage=true
