Liberia, Sierra Leone Race To Enforce Ebola Quarantine
By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH
HuffingtonPost.com
08/07/2014
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — West Africans battling to contain the spread of Ebola will have to wait for months until a potentially life-saving experimental drug used on two Americans infected with the dreaded disease could even be made, officials said. Soldiers in two of the affected countries deployed Thursday to try to stem further spread of the virus.
There’s little of the experimental drug ZMapp available now, and even if it can be made in large quantities, its safety and effectiveness haven’t been tested yet. Furthermore, no commitment has been publicly made to provide it to Africa.
The health minister of Nigeria, one of the four countries where Ebola has broken out, told a news conference in Washington that he had asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about access to the drug. But a CDC spokesman said Wednesday “there are virtually no doses available.”
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