Liberian doctor who received last dose of experimental Ebola drug dies
Canada works on new vaccine as supplies of untested ZMapp run out
A Liberian doctor who received one of the last known doses of an experimental Ebola drug has died, officials said.
ZMapp had been tried in only six people. It was never tested in humans, and health experts do not know whether it works.
The supply is now said to be exhausted and it is expected to be months before more can be produced.
Dr Abraham Borbor, the deputy chief medical doctor at Liberia's largest hospital, had received ZMapp, along with two other Liberians.
He "was showing signs of improvement but yesterday he took a turn for the worse", and died on Sunday, Information Minister Lewis Brown said. There was no update on the other two Liberians who received the drug.
Earlier, it had been given to two American aid workers and a Spanish missionary priest, who died after he left Liberia. After receiving rigorous medical care in the US, the Americans survived the virus that has killed about half of its victims.
Ebola has left more than 1,400 people dead across West Africa.
