Health care workers in Liberia have administered
three doses of the rare, experimental drug ZMapp to three doctors suffering
from Ebola, two medical workers in Monrovia told Reuters.
Liberia, the West
African country with the highest death toll from the virus at 413, received three
doses of the serum in a special consignment this week. Doctors Zukunis Ireland
and Abraham Borbor from Liberia and Dr. Aroh Cosmos Izchukwu from Nigeria are
the first Africans to receive the treatment.
The drug has been administered to
two American healthcare workers and a Spanish priest, all previously working in
Liberian hospitals. The U.S. workers' health improved but the priest died.
"Three doctors are currently being administered
treatment with the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp. Treatment began on Thursday
evening," said Dr. Billy Johnson, chief medical officer of John F. Kennedy
Medical Center in Monrovia where two of the doctors served.
A second healthcare
worker at the Elwa center which is housing the sick doctors confirmed that they
were on their third day of a six-day ZMapp treatment. Details of their
condition aren’t known. culled
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