Global health organization (who) has confirmed the introduction in the treatment of disease caused by Ebola virus, vaccines. This drug is not passed clinical trials.

This decision was made based on the results of the Geneva meeting of experts on medical ethics, ITAR-TASS reported. At the meeting, the experts discussed the ethical and practical nuances of the vaccine to be able to pause spreading in Africa the disease.

The decision to hold such a meeting came after the story with 2 employees South American non-governmental organization "Purse Samaritan". They acquired the virus in Liberia, were transported to the United States, where their healing used experimental vaccine, previously only tested on monkeys.

Patients on the mend, but this option has raised many ethical issues. For example, why the inhabitants of one state have access to medicine, and other hundreds die from the virus. For fresh information, the who, the number of victims of the outbreak in the States of West Africa increased to 1013 people. Contracted a dangerous disease of 1,848.

The government of Guinea has closed its borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone in consequence of Ebola only from 7 to 9 August, informs a specialized Agency of the UN in the field of health. In Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone spotted 69 new cases of dangerous diseases, 52 of which had a fatal ending.

In statistics includes not only laboratory approved deaths from the disease (660 and 1176 respectively), but also cases with suspected her.

Most of the inhabitants of our planet from a disease caused by the Ebola virus, which the who last week said the threat of international scope, died in Guinea, where the outbreak started in early December of last year - 373 people.
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