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EXPERIMENTAL drugs and vaccines have been approved for use by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in an effort to contain the west African Ebola outbreak.
The UN health agency said today that it would be “ethical” to use as yet unproven treatments as over half of those who have contracted the virus — for which there is no known cure — have died during the current epidemic.
Treatments never before tested on humans have apparently already been used on two US citizens and Spanish priest Miguel Parajes, who became the first victim of the disease to die in Europe yesterday after being airlifted home from Liberia.
But medics in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria have complained that their own citizens have not had access to the experimental drugs.
The outbreak has killed 1,013 people of 1,848 suspected or confirmed cases, the WHO said.
