Opting Against Ebola Drug for Ill African Doctor :-
The doctor who had been leading Sierra Leone’s battle against the Ebola outbreak was now fighting for his own life, and his international colleagues faced a fateful decision: whether to give him a drug that had never before been tested on people.
Would the drug, known as ZMapp,help the stricken doctor? Or would it perhaps harm or even kill one of the country’s most prominent physicians, a man considered a national hero, shattering the already fragile public trust in international efforts to contain the world’s worst Ebola outbreak?
The treatment team, from Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization, agonized through the night and ultimately decided not to try the drug. The doctor, Sheik Umar Khan, died a few days later, on July 29.
Using a Tactic Unseen in a Century, Countries Cordon Off Ebola-Racked AreasAUG. 12, 2014
Foday Ansumana Konneh, a villager in Njala Ngiema, Sierra Leone, said three of his wives and four of his children died of Ebola.At Heart of Ebola Outbreak, a Village Frozen by Fear and DeathAUG. 11, 2014
Ivory Coast’s health institute in Abidjan posted information for travelers to or from areas affected by the Ebola outbreak.Nigeria Struggles to Cope With Ebola OutbreakAUG. 10, 2014
A Reynolds American plant in Owensboro, Ky., makes ZMapp inside the leaves of tobacco plants, but production is very limited. Ebola Therapy From an Obscure Biotech Firm Is Hurried AlongAUG. 6, 2014
Topic: The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
The doses of the drug that were not used were eventually sent to Liberia, where other doctors made the opposite decision — and two American aid workers became the first people in the world to receive ZMapp. Both of them survived and are now being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
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Would the drug, known as ZMapp,help the stricken doctor? Or would it perhaps harm or even kill one of the country’s most prominent physicians, a man considered a national hero, shattering the already fragile public trust in international efforts to contain the world’s worst Ebola outbreak?
The treatment team, from Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization, agonized through the night and ultimately decided not to try the drug. The doctor, Sheik Umar Khan, died a few days later, on July 29.
Using a Tactic Unseen in a Century, Countries Cordon Off Ebola-Racked AreasAUG. 12, 2014
Foday Ansumana Konneh, a villager in Njala Ngiema, Sierra Leone, said three of his wives and four of his children died of Ebola.At Heart of Ebola Outbreak, a Village Frozen by Fear and DeathAUG. 11, 2014
Ivory Coast’s health institute in Abidjan posted information for travelers to or from areas affected by the Ebola outbreak.Nigeria Struggles to Cope With Ebola OutbreakAUG. 10, 2014
A Reynolds American plant in Owensboro, Ky., makes ZMapp inside the leaves of tobacco plants, but production is very limited. Ebola Therapy From an Obscure Biotech Firm Is Hurried AlongAUG. 6, 2014
Topic: The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
The doses of the drug that were not used were eventually sent to Liberia, where other doctors made the opposite decision — and two American aid workers became the first people in the world to receive ZMapp. Both of them survived and are now being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
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