The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned Tuesday that the window of opportunity for curbing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is closing rapidly and called for "an overwhelming response " to bring the unprecedented epidemic under control.
The first British Ebola patient, a 29-year-old male nurse named as William Pooley, has been treated with the experimental drug ZMapp in a London hospital.
The experimental Ebola drug given to two American aid workers has been sent to a West African country that requested it, and the supply of the drug is now " exhausted," U.S. manufacturer Mapp Biopharmaceutical said Monday.