Experimental Ebola drugs approved by WHO.
US company sends all available supplies of experimental drug ZMapp to Africa as other potential drugs move rapidly towards clinical trials.
Geneva (AFP) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has authorised the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000 and a Spanish priest became the first European to succumb to the outbreak. The declaration by the WHO, the UN's health agency, came Tuesday after a US company that makes an experimental serum called ZMapp said it had sent all its available supplies to hard-hit west Africa. UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced plans to step up the global response to the outbreak, while urging governments to "avoid panic and fear" over an easily-preventable disease. The epidemic, the worst since Ebola was first discovered four decades ago, has killed 1,013 people since early this year. Cases have so far been limited to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which account for the bulk of victims, and Nigeria with three deaths. Terror has gripped the impoverished west African countries ravaged by the disease, with harrowing tales emerging of people being shunned by their villages as the virus fells those around them. When AFP visited the Liberian village of Ballajah, some 150 kilometres from the capital Monrovia, 12-year-old Fatu Sherrif had been locked away with her mother's body without food and water for a week. Her cries went unanswered as panicked residents fled the village when both her parents fell sick. Fatu later died and her brother Barnie, 15, despite testing negative for Ebola, was left alone and hungry in an abandoned house. "Nobody wants to come near me and they know people told them that I don't have Ebola," he told AFP.
Experimental Ebola drugs approved by WHO.
US company sends all available supplies of experimental drug ZMapp to Africa as other potential drugs move rapidly towards clinical trials.
Geneva (AFP) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has authorised the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000 and a Spanish priest became the first European to succumb to the outbreak. The declaration by the WHO, the UN's health agency, came Tuesday after a US company that makes an experimental serum called ZMapp said it had sent all its available supplies to hard-hit west Africa. UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced plans to step up the global response to the outbreak, while urging governments to "avoid panic and fear" over an easily-preventable disease. The epidemic, the worst since Ebola was first discovered four decades ago, has killed 1,013 people since early this year. Cases have so far been limited to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which account for the bulk of victims, and Nigeria with three deaths. Terror has gripped the impoverished west African countries ravaged by the disease, with harrowing tales emerging of people being shunned by their villages as the virus fells those around them. When AFP visited the Liberian village of Ballajah, some 150 kilometres from the capital Monrovia, 12-year-old Fatu Sherrif had been locked away with her mother's body without food and water for a week. Her cries went unanswered as panicked residents fled the village when both her parents fell sick. Fatu later died and her brother Barnie, 15, despite testing negative for Ebola, was left alone and hungry in an abandoned house. "Nobody wants to come near me and they know people told them that I don't have Ebola," he told AFP.
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