Liberian doctor treated with experimental Ebola drug dies

One of the three doctors infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease and being treated with the experimental drug ZMapp has died in Monrovia, Liberia. Dr. Abraham Borbor’s death was confirmed by the country’s Information Minister Lewis Brown on Monday. ” He died yesterday,” Brown said. According to World Health Organsiation, ZMapp is one of several experimental treatments and vaccines for Ebola that are currently undergoing investigation. It has so far been used on six Ebola patients and the supplies have been exhausted. Among the beneficiaries, were the two American medical officers, Dr. Kent Brantly and the nurse, Nancy Writebol, who survived. The Spanish priest who was flown to Madrid and who used the drug, did not survive. The Liberian doctor was the second person to have died after using the drug