WHO: 'Unanimous agreement' on untested Ebola drugs
Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization has said.
At a meeting in Switzerland, it was decided that such a move was ethical in light of the scale of the outbreak and high number of deaths in west Africa in recent weeks.
Dr Marie-Paule Kieny from the WHO said that there has been "unanimous agreement" among experts to allow the use of the drugs, as long as certain caveats were met.
12 Aug 2014
- From the section Health