The drug called ZMapp arrived at
Madrid’s La Paz-Carlos III hospital
where the 75-year-old missionary
was being treated in isolation, the
health ministry said in a statement
late on Saturday.
Spain’s drug safety agency allowed
the “exceptional importation” of
ZMapp under a law that allows “the
use of non-authorised medications
in cases where a patent’s life is in
danger and they can’t be treated
satisfactorily with an authorised
medication,” it said.
The Roman Catholic priest, Miguel
Pajares, was one of three people
who tested positive for Ebola at the
Saint Joseph Hospital in the
Liberian capital Monrovia where he
worked.
He was brought back to Spain on
Thursday on a medically equipped
Spanish airforce plane, the first
patient in the fast-spreading Ebola
outbreak to be evacuated to Europe
for treatment.
Spanish health authorities said
Thursday the priest was in a stable
condition. The hospital is not
providing medical updates for the
missionary at his request.
The military flight also evacuated
Spanish nun Juliana Bonoha Bohe,
65, who worked at the same
hospital as Pajares in Liberia and
who was found not to have Ebola.
The Spanish charity Pajares worked
for, the Hospitaller Brothers of St.
John of God, had asked Madrid to
bring to Spain for treatment two
African missionaries infected with
Ebola who also worked at the
hospital but the request was turned
down.
One of those two missionaries, a
Congolese nun, died on Saturday
due to Ebola, the charity said.
There is no proven treatment or
cure for Ebola, which causes severe
fever and, in the worst cases,
unstoppable bleeding. Some 55
percent of cases in this outbreak
have been fatal.
Two Americans infected with Ebola
while treating patients in Liberia
have shown signs of improvement
since being given Zmapp back in the
United States but health authorities
say it is too early to tell if the drug
had anything to do with that.
ZMapp, a treatment made by
private US company Mapp
Pharmaceuticals, is still in an
extremely early phase of
development and had only been
tested previously on monkeys.
The use of the medication has
sparked an ethical controversy as
experts call for it to be made
available to African nations
this actually show USA is enemy to west African


source

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/spanish-priest-treated-experimental-ebola-drug/

moderator front page pls this is an important issue

Africa wont still understand

An insult to africa.

Waspy: Africa wont still understand

We too dey cry for help so they are kinda getting tired of us.

And Nigerians are still pleading...

America would rather destroy the Zmapp drug than send it to Africa at this time.

Africa need some punishments.

A wake up call for Africans

Tallesty1: We too dey cry for help so they are kinda getting tired of us.

They are not getting tired kankan. They Neva liked us

Nigerians and Africans just do not and cannot get it! Their brain and that of their leaders is made of cast iron lead + stone: stop waiting for others to care for your future when you steal $ 20 B that could be enough to finance AIDS + Ebola drug for a dozen years + enough left to build the best health facilities in the 6 regions of Nigeria. Then you can charge the Congolese, Senegalese, Ghanaians, etc any amount of money to treat this sickness. Well, if GEJ does not care a of 300 kidnapped girls and his fellow agents even deny that the kidnapping even took place, why should a foreign country care if all of una are kidnapped by eboela? How is that salt and bitter kola solution working out for ya, you lazy incompetent Nigerians and shameful people??

Waspy: They are not getting tired kankan. They Neva liked us

Stop being a liability, everyone is tired of your laziness. Read my post for more details.

When the chips are down, oyibo will help themselves. To them, you're just a "black monkey" - and your life means nothing. The earlier we understand this, the better.

Nigerias, I think it's time we start to encourage/beg the brilliant minds among us to rule us and to take over all positions of authority in the country.

Waspy: They are not getting tired kankan. They Neva liked us

Then we should stop looking up to them for help.

madamoringo: Nigerians and Africans just do not and cannot get it! Their brain and that of their leaders is made of cast iron lead + stone: stop waiting for others to care for your future when you steal $ 20 B that could be enough to finance AIDS + Ebola drug for a dozen years + enough left to build the best health facilities in the 6 regions of Nigeria. Then you can charge the Congolese, Senegalese, Ghanaians, etc any amount of money to treat this sickness. Well, if GEJ does not care a of 300 kidnapped girls and his fellow agents even deny that the kidnapping even took place, why should a foreign country care if all of una are kidnapped by eboela? How is that salt and bitter kola solution working out for ya, you lazy incompetent Nigerians and shameful people??

its time to roost chicken your crowing isn't needed now,wait till morning

madamoringo: Nigerians and Africans just do not and cannot get it! Their brain and that of their leaders is made of cast iron lead + stone: stop waiting for others to care for your future when you steal $ 20 B that could be enough to finance AIDS + Ebola drug for a dozen years + enough left to build the best health facilities in the 6 regions of Nigeria. Then you can charge the Congolese, Senegalese, Ghanaians, etc any amount of money to treat this sickness. Well, if GEJ does not care a of 300 kidnapped girls and his fellow agents even deny that the kidnapping even took place, why should a foreign country care if all of una are kidnapped by eboela? How is that salt and bitter kola solution working out for ya, you lazy incompetent Nigerians and shameful people??

WELL SAID....

Arosa: Nigerias, I think it's time we start to encourage/beg the brilliant minds among us to rule us and to take over all positions of authority in the country.

^^^Good luck with that! Which part of Nigeria will agree they're the basket-case of the country and beg others to rule and take over all sensitive national positions?

Ask for merit to trump federal character and quota system now and see the people that'll shout you down!

Are u serious?
This is serious

Thunder fire all pharmacist and their companies,
Na malaria drugs dem sabi produce, with silver tag on it to identify original ones...

Damn!!!!!!!!

This is a challenge to our people in the concerned field.
This calls for war! Economic war!
I would ignore self_haters, you people no worth it.

And the same country turned down Nigeria's request. Make we dey watch.

OP, you will do well to provide the source of this news. I'm not in support of the USA not giving Nigeria this same ZMAPP drug, but having to post such info (which will only make people throw insults and hate at the Americans) without credible source is not one thing that I will support.
So, where you get ya info from?

shebi una call them gay. the drug was produced by a gay doctor while we throw our own gays behind bars for 14 years. . what are we complaining again for.

i believe by d grace of God and by d power of jesus christ dat nigerians are already immuned. Remeba dat d salt water rumour broke out and abt 90 per cent of nigerians administerd it. If tb joshua believe dat he can cure ebola wit anointin water,y nt beliv dat God has turnd d salt water 2 vacines 4 us.

Liamm: An insult to africa.

Is no insult, if we don't start solving our problems, who will?

We depend on foreign aid in health, Military operations,cruel processing... Infact visually in everything, so what makes us independent?

henchamb: shebi una call them gay. the drug was produced by a gay doctor while we throw our own gays behind bars for 14 years. . what are we complaining again for.

^^^Hehehehehe

I would imagine that as they approach the American gay scientist that developed the serum for his permission to give some to Nigeria, he would point-blank refuse, and as he's in his white lab coat, with arms akimbo in defiance, he'd stamp his foot down and say something along the lines of: "let those Nigerian homophobes perish for all i care ......it's a damned sight less than what they'd do to me given half a chance"!

This's why I was so shocked to see African leaders on CNN sitting like obedient students receiving lectures from Obama when he spoke of his plan of investment in Africa, which is all but a trojan investment and part of a wider instrument of neo-colonialism to further underdevelop Africa. Have you ever asked yourself, which banks do the profits from this investment go?. Answer; back to investors foreign bank account not in Africa.
I can't believe in this age African leaders are still expecting manar to fall from sky.
Just look at it!. They are ready to invest in Africa but not ready to send common medicine for ebola. Isn't this enough to tell African leaders there's no clean free investment waiting out there?

Africa cannot develope without investment in grassroots science!. I've made the claim and have shown the way to break out of western control. You can read about it at: http://www.africason.com/2014/06/african-school-of-grassroots-science.html?m=1

This practically shows that the US have no interest in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. The only interest they have is for their selfish gains They are just after what benefits them... so sad! However we Africans should wake up and take our destinies into our hands instead of depending solely on the western world. Our leaders should shun corruption and channel our resources to research... We got the brains

china have shifted some supply to West Africa I heard from Aljezera now

Nigeria youth is more interested in dancing,singing and acting rich.

They said they had only two vials, how come

They are either waiting for a surge in the number of infected persons before they release the drugs or maybe they're trying to develop a vaccine so they keep hoarding the treatment to make money from sales of vaccine.

If this story is true.

asadike: i believe by d grace of God and by d power of jesus christ dat nigerians are already immuned. Remeba dat d salt water rumour broke out and abt 90 per cent of nigerians administerd it. If tb joshua believe dat he can cure ebola wit anointin water,y nt beliv dat God has turnd d salt water 2 vacines 4 us.

THIS IS THE KIND OF STUPIDITY THAT KEEPS AFRICA UNDEVELOPED
KEEP PRAYING WHILE OTHER NATIONS ARE WORKING