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August 12, 2014

Ebola Deaths Top 1,000; Liberian Doctors to Get Experimental Drug 
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The death toll from a record Ebola outbreak in West Africa has topped
1,000. The World Health Organization says there are now more than 1,800
suspected or confirmed infections. On Monday, Liberia said it is
receiving doses of an experimental drug to give to two doctors. The
doctors will be the first Africans treated with ZMapp, which has been
used on two U.S. missionaries now recovering in Georgia and a Spanish
priest who has died. The WHO has backed the use of the drug to treat the
current crisis, but its maker says stocks are very limited.

 

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