World Ebola: 'Its Too Early to Send ZMapp Drug to Africa' - Obama

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President Barack Obama of the United States yesterday said it was too early to send the experimental #Ebola drug -ZMapp- to Africa, because things are still sketchy.

According to him, a strong public health system should curtail the spread of the virus and eventually eradicate it.

Excerpt from Aljazeera:

US President Barack Obama said it is "premature" to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, as #Liberia declared a state of emergency amid an outbreak that shows no signs of slowing.

Obama said on Wednesday that he lacked enough information to green-light a promising medicine called #ZMapp that was already used on two American aid workers who saw their conditions improve by varying degrees.

"We've got to let the science guide us and I don't think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful," Obama said. "The Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place."

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Good decision. We don't want Ebola to turn into something else on our hands. Stuffs like this should be handled with the utmost care and must not be rushed.
 
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