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Doctor dies despite promising Ebola experimental treatment─── 09:25 Tue, 26 Aug 2014
Monrovia - A Liberian doctor who contracted the Ebola virus and received a promising experimental treatment has died.
The manager of the Elwa Ebola Facility in Monrovia, Liberia, says Abrahim Borbor died Sunday evening after contracting Ebola at JFK Hospital in Monrovia.
Borbor was given ZMapp, the same drug that was given to two Americans who had Ebola.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is also reporting new Ebola cases in a northern town, sparking fears that the deadly virus is expanding far beyond West Africa. A lab and quarantine station have been set up in the town of Gera, which is about 750 miles from the capital of Kinshasa.
The central African nation says its test shows that the strain is different from the one that has killed nearly 1,500 people in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
There are five identified strains of the Ebola virus and four are known to cause infections in humans.
CNN
