Ebola

Two Liberian doctors are set to become the first Africans to receive an experimental drug against the Ebola virus. Once they are treated, existing supplies of the drug, ZMapp, will be exhausted. The news comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) concludes that it is ethical to use unproven treatments in the current outbreak in West Africa, the biggest outbreak of Ebola since records began, which had killed 1,013 people by 9 August.