The Nigeria Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu has
revealed that an experimental drug for the treatment of Ebola Viral Disease has
been developed by a Nigerian in diaspora and is expected to arrive in the
country today.
The vaccine, identified as “Nanosilver”, can now be used as
a result of the approval by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that
experimental treatments are ethical in the case of the Ebola pandemic.
The Nigerian federal government authorised the use of trial drugs for the affliction on Wednesday. The United States had sent ZMapp, another experimental drug, to Liberia on Wednesday, while Canada has decided to donate 1,000 vaccines to the affected countries.
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