Liberian Doctor Treated With an Experimental Drug Dies From Ebola
Source: NYT
A Liberian doctor with Ebola who was given ZMapp — the same experimental drug given to two infected Americans — has died, officials said Monday.
Dr. Abraham Borbor, deputy chief medical doctor at Liberia’s largest hospital, received one of the few existing doses of the drug, made by a San Diego company, The Associated Press said, quoting Liberia’s information minister.
The two Americans who received ZMapp, both working for the charity Samaritan’s Purse, survived after treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. When the two were released last week, their doctors said they did not know whether the drug — a cocktail of mouse antibodies grown in tobacco plants — had helped them, had no effect or perhaps even slowed their recoveries.
A Spanish priest who received one of the first six doses also died, but that was attributed in part to his age, 75.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/world/africa/liberian-doctor-treated-with-an-experimental-drug-dies-from-ebola.html
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