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President Barack Obama has stated that the best strategy for the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa (which has so far claimed 932 lives) is a better health system.
Bloomberg, in a news report, quotes the American president as saying the jury's still out on the helpfulness of the ZMapp drug (the 'secret serum') in curing the Ebola Virus.
Excerpt:
"After an experimental drug developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. was used to treat two infected American health workers, Nigeria’s health ministry requested access to the drug from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful,” Obama said when asked about the ethics of making the drug available. “I will continue to seek information about what we’re learning with respect to these drugs going forward.”
Use of the drug, called ZMapp, is raising questions about whether a medicine that hasn’t been shown to be safe in humans should be distributed more widely during the outbreak and, given the limited amount of medicine available, who should get it, the WHO said in the announcement."
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Source: #Bloomberg
Bloomberg, in a news report, quotes the American president as saying the jury's still out on the helpfulness of the ZMapp drug (the 'secret serum') in curing the Ebola Virus.
Excerpt:
"After an experimental drug developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. was used to treat two infected American health workers, Nigeria’s health ministry requested access to the drug from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful,” Obama said when asked about the ethics of making the drug available. “I will continue to seek information about what we’re learning with respect to these drugs going forward.”
Use of the drug, called ZMapp, is raising questions about whether a medicine that hasn’t been shown to be safe in humans should be distributed more widely during the outbreak and, given the limited amount of medicine available, who should get it, the WHO said in the announcement."
Click here to read more
Source: #Bloomberg
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