Ebola’s Toll on Healthcare Workers

“Unprecedented number of medical staff infected with Ebola,” the World Health Organization says.

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The WHO cites inadequate access to protective equipment among the reasons more than 240 healthcare workers have been infected with Ebola to date.WIKIMEDIA, RILEY HUNTLEY

A Liberian doctor who was treated with an experimental serum for Ebola has died. According to BBC News, Abraham Borbor, the deputy chief medical doctor at the Liberia’s John F. Kennedy Medical Center, was one of three doctors in the country who received ZMapp “and were showing signs of recovery.” But Borbor “took a turn for the worse” on Sunday (August 24), Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown told the BBC. “What this means for the drugs, I don’t know.”

Both American healthcare workers who were treated with ZMapp on US soil have recovered and left the hospital. A Spanish priest who received ZMapp died in Spain shortly after treatment. The Associated Press noted that information on the other two Liberian doctors who received ZMapp has ...

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