Ebola kills Modupeh Cole, leading Sierra Leone doctor
Ebola has killed more than 1,000 during West African outbreak
CBC.ca
Aug 13, 2014
A leading physician in Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola has died from the disease, an official said Wednesday, as it emerged that another top doctor last month was considered for an experimental treatment.
Ultimately, doctors decided against using the drug and he died before he could be airlifted out of the country. There was very little of the experimental treatment available, which has stoked debate about ethics on who should get it, even though it hasn’t been tested in humans. There is no way of knowing if the drug, known as ZMapp, made a difference in the few people who have gotten the now-exhausted supply of the drug.
Only two Americans and a Spaniard have received ZMapp, an unproven and experimental anti-Ebola drug made in the United States. The Spaniard died on Tuesday.
Ebola has killed more than 1,000 people in the current West African outbreak that has also hit Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria. Many of the dead are health workers, who are often working with inadequate supplies and protection.
Doctors considered giving ZMapp to Sheik Humarr Khan, the chief doctor treating Ebola in Sierra Leone who had come down with the deadly disease, but eventually decided against it “after taking [his] clinical and treatment conditions into account,” officials at the World Health Organization said in an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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