Liberia: Doctor given experimental Ebola drug dies

Monrovia — A Liberian doctor who received one
of the last known doses of an experimental Ebola
drug has died, officials said Monday. Separately,
Canada said it has yet to send out an untested
vaccine that the government is donating.
Ebola has left more than 1 400 people dead
across West Africa, underscoring the urgency for
developing potential ways to stop and treat the
disease. However, health experts warn these
drugs and vaccines have not undergone the
rigorous testing that usually takes place before
they are used.
The experimental vaccines are at still at a
Canadian laboratory, said Patrick Gaebel,
spokesman for the Public Health Agency of
Canada, who declined to speculate how many
weeks it could be before those are given to
volunteers.