WHO: Blood of Ebola survivors should be used to help sufferers
Blood taken from Ebola survivors such as British nurse William Pooley should be used to treat others, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
And the global health body announced that Ebola vaccines could be used on the front line by November. More than 1,900 people have died in the world’s biggest outbreak.
WHO experts have met to discuss new therapies which could contain the virus.
Assistant director general Dr Marie Paule Kieny said: “There is a real opportunity that a blood derived product can be used.”
She added: “There are also many people now who have survived. They can provide blood to treat the other people who are sick.”
Mr Pooley, 29, left hospital this week after recovering
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