U.S. FDA, Obama OK use of experimental Ebola drug in Liberia -
Barack Obama and the Food and Drug
Administration have approved a request from
Liberia's government to send sample doses of an
experimental drug to treat Liberian doctors
infected with Ebola, the Liberian presidency said
in a statement.
The statement, posted on the Liberian
presidency's official website, said the
experimental drugs would be delivered to the
West African country this week by a
representative of the U.S. government, following
a direct appeal to Obama on Friday by Liberian
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health
Organization, has also authorized the dispatch of
additional doses of the experimental drug to
Liberia to support the treatment of affected
doctors, the statement said. Those doses will be
delivered by a WHO expert this week. (Reporting by
Clair MacDougall in Liberia and Daniel Flynn in
Dakar)
Source: Reuters
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