How Did US Ebola Patients Get ‘Experimental’ Drug? Why not Africans?

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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Ebola outbreak: Western drugs firms have not tried to find vaccine ‘because virus only affects Africans’, says UK’s top public health doctor

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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Living in the shadow of Ebola: Symptoms and Treatment

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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Ethiopia sets up anti-Ebola committee

Anadolu Agency ADDIS ABABA-Ethiopia has set up a national committee to draw up a plan to prevent and contain any possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which is currently sweeping West Africa, the country’s Public Health Institute said. “A national committee is set up to design a guideline enabling to prevent Ebola,” institute spokesperson

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Ethiopia sets up anti-Ebola committee

Anadolu Agency ADDIS ABABA-Ethiopia has set up a national committee to draw up a plan to prevent and contain any possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which is currently sweeping West Africa, the country’s Public Health Institute said. “A national committee is set up to design a guideline enabling to prevent Ebola,” institute spokesperson

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Ebola: Fact sheet

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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