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Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by billante(m): 4:06pm On Aug 17, 2014
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Health care workers in Liberia have administered three doses of the rare, experimental drug ZMapp to three doctors suffering from Ebola, two medical workers in Monrovia told Reuters.

Liberia, the West African country with the highest death toll from the tropical virus at 413, received three doses of the rare serum in a special consignment this week.

Doctors Zukunis Ireland and Abraham Borbor from Liberia and Dr. Aroh Cosmos Izchukwu from Nigeria are the first Africans to receive the treatment. The drug has already been administered to two American healthcare workers and a Spanish priest, all previously working in Liberian hospitals.

The U.S. healthcare workers' health has since improved but the Spanish priest died.

"Three doctors are currently being administered treatment with the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp. Treatment began on Thursday evening," said Dr. Billy Johnson, chief medical officer of John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia where two of the doctors served before contracting the deadly virus.

A second healthcare worker at the Elwa center which is housing the sick doctors confirmed that they were on their third day of a six-day ZMapp treatment.

Details of their condition are not known.

The U.N. health agency said only around 10 to 12 doses of the drug have been made and this raises difficult ethical questions about who should get priority access.

The apparent improvement in the two U.S. healthcare workers' condition has stoked popular pressure to make the drug available to Africans - a cause advocated by the Twitter hashtag group #giveustheserum.

There is currently no vaccine against the highly-contagious disease and other forms of treatment are only designed to relieve symptoms such as fever, vomiting and haemorrhaging.

Up to 90 percent of victims die - a fatality rate so high that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies the illness as a category A "bioterrorism agent" - although the current outbreak fatality rate is near 60 percent.

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has declared a state of emergency due to the outbreak, widely seen as the country's biggest challenge since the 1989-2003 civil war.

Health care workers fighting to stop the disease's spread in often overcrowded and ill-equipped clinics often succumb to Ebola themselves. The World Health Organization says that more than 170 healthcare workers have been infected and at least 81 have died.

U.S. President Barack Obama called Johnson-Sirleaf earlier this week to offer condolences for the country's losses and discussed control measures, Liberia said in a statement.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0GG0L020140816?irpc=932

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by sugarboimaxy(m): 4:09pm On Aug 17, 2014
I pray it works...

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Nobody: 4:15pm On Aug 17, 2014
Have they tried nano silver and bitter kola?

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by emperorchedda(m): 4:17pm On Aug 17, 2014
If this works it will finally put to an end the rants of Nigerians about one nano silver being better than the already tested zmapp!

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by ramdris(m): 4:17pm On Aug 17, 2014
Trying to right their wrong. That's okay by me.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by emperorchedda(m): 4:18pm On Aug 17, 2014
Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by pussygotlips: 4:22pm On Aug 17, 2014
Good idea,





But why can't Africans experiment the imported zmapp to develop their own

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Waspy(m): 4:23pm On Aug 17, 2014
If this is true....way to go then
Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Dubby6(m): 4:31pm On Aug 17, 2014
D sabi d guy worth na
And maybe its another way of apologizing for dat mad Sawyers rough play
Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Spaxon(f): 4:37pm On Aug 17, 2014
Datz good... Bt dat dosent change d pwice of salt
Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Nobody: 4:40pm On Aug 17, 2014
All 3 doses to doctors? If that happened in Nigeria, JOHESU would have embarked on strike.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Adelaide2: 4:42pm On Aug 17, 2014
Liberia Chooses To Give The Only Available 3 Doses Of Zmapp To A Nigerian

and Dr. Aroh Cosmos Izchukwu from Nigeria are the first Africans

Misleading topic. The man though a Nigerian was a doctor in Liberia.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by redsun(m): 5:07pm On Aug 17, 2014
With the speed that pharmaceutical companies usually mass produce drugs like this in times like this,how come they are still very few of the Ebola drugs available,even when there are readily available Guinea pigs that are bent on trying enything,including eating and bathing with raw salt?

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by nora544: 5:14pm On Aug 17, 2014
I read that they will give it first to doctors and health workers who know what it means to test a drug.

I see it in the TV how they make the drug, because also the University of life science vienna can make the drug but they have only a very small room where the tabak plants grow and all is hand made and they need to be very carfully with this tabac plants.

It takes 3 steeps to make it.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Brimmie(m): 5:28pm On Aug 17, 2014
Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by sartorius(m): 6:05pm On Aug 17, 2014
guys dey hussle reach liberia.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by ayusco85(m): 6:10pm On Aug 17, 2014
Why will they send just 12 doses to Liberia? This americans think they are some demi god that can play with peoples lives. What's stops them from producing this serum in hundreds? So they don't care about the lives dying everyday.

*if it were china that had the zmapp, it will ve been in every market in africa*


Last bullet: china should be world power instead of U.S.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by 4reigningqueen: 6:10pm On Aug 17, 2014
lets h0pe it w0rks.

after that nigerian d0ct0r survived, eb0la l0st the battle here in nigeria.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Agent8706(m): 6:12pm On Aug 17, 2014
Lord only knows how much the U.S is milking from the Liberian treasury; creating a virus just so the anti-virus can sell like their IT counterparts. I think their rejecting our proposal is a blessing in disguise for us, if only our leaders can put to use the resources the U.S would have siphoned from us to sponsor our locally made "insecticide". Sure the end of ebola is come.

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by iamtewwy(m): 6:12pm On Aug 17, 2014
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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by lilprinze: 6:12pm On Aug 17, 2014
i pray it works and i also pray itz d original zmapp dy brought to African nt d fake 1

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by sammieguze(m): 6:12pm On Aug 17, 2014
Three lucky ones
Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by BUSHHUNTER: 6:13pm On Aug 17, 2014
Lols

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Nobody: 6:13pm On Aug 17, 2014
Just 12 dosages of Zmapp available yet some dead-brain Nigerians have been conjuring a lotta conspiracy theories about why Americans didn't want to give us the experimental drug coz they US A are the cause of Ebola and how they are punishing us for our stubborn stance on banning gays. Chaii, some nigerians too mumu ehn grin with just 4 deaths recorded in Nigeria and over 400 deaths recorded in Liberia alone, sierra Leone dey o , which country obviously needs the 12 available zmapp??
Agent8706: Lord only knows how much the U.S is milking from the Liberian treasury; creating a virus just so the anti-virus can sell like their IT counterparts.
America milking Liberia's treasury abi wetin this mumu dey talk? Why would America care about a poor country like Liberia to exploit in the first place. That why I dey say mumus too much for this country, ebola see expendable mumus like una e no gree catch, na our able doctors e go dey catch. Chai

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by sirjohnson(m): 6:13pm On Aug 17, 2014
We'll now keep our fingers crossed and see if they respond well. Lets keep praying

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Nobody: 6:13pm On Aug 17, 2014
pussygotlips: Good idea,





But why can't Africans experiment the imported zmapp to develop their own


1.Because it costs a lot of money.

2.Because it requires a high class lab to do the research....which costs money....as wellas constant water and power supply...because as my relative who is a scientist can tell you....months of research can go up in smoke when Please Hold Candle Near,or Problem has Changed Name strikes.

That's why you Nigerians should have backed ASUU last year when they asked for the money promised in 2009....but no...you people forced them to take 1/3rd of what they asked for...

No eggs,no omelet!

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Nobody: 6:14pm On Aug 17, 2014
Sincere9gerian: All 3 doses to doctors? If that happened in Nigeria, JOHESU would have embarked on strike.

The problem with the Zmapp is that it is so limited(right now there are less than 12 bottles/ampoules available)...and so expensive to make.

How does one share 12 ampoules amongst hundreds of ebola patients?

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by Daniel058(m): 6:14pm On Aug 17, 2014
We need you oh healing God..

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Re: Liberia Gives Available Doses Of Zmapp Three African Doctors by HonourablePomk: 6:15pm On Aug 17, 2014
I hope the quick cure comes quick...Because of ebola shortage of water at home...#GOAWAYEBOLA

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