ZMapp which has been credited with helping several patients
recover, including two US doctors discharged last week could not save the life
of a Liberian doctor, Anraham Borbor.
Borbor was one of three doctors in Liberia who had been given
the drug and were showing signs of recovery.
Recall that more than 1,400 people have died from Ebola this
year in four West African countries – Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra
Leone.
Ebola is spread between humans through direct contact with
infected body fluids and several doctors and health workers have died.
It is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, with up to 90%
of cases resulting in death, although in the current outbreak the rate is about
55%.
The speed and extent of the outbreak was “unprecedented”, the
World Health Organization (WHO) said last week.
An estimated 2,615 people in West Africa have been infected
with Ebola since March.
On Saturday, Sierra Leone’s parliament passed a new law
making it a criminal offence to hide Ebola patients.
If approved by the president, those caught face up to two
years in prison.
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