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| President Obama on ebola |
According to US President Barrack Obama, it's too 'premature' to send experimental drugs to West Africa for the treatment of Ebola as Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared a state-of-emergency in her country following the alarming outbreak of the virus.
Amid reports of a medicine called 'ZMapp' which experimentally cured two Americans of the virus, President Obama denied having sufficient information on the medicine.
"We've got to let the science guide us and I don't think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful," Obama said.
"The Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place."He also said:
"..the countries affected are the first to admit that what's
happened here is the public health systems have been overwhelmed. They weren't able to identify and then isolate cases quickly enough."
"As a consequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical with the periodic Ebola outbreaks that occurred previously."Regarding the urgent situation, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday said it would urge medical experts to the emergency use of any experimental procedures for treatments having it that there is yet no known cure for the deadly disease.
"We're focusing on the public health approach right now, but I will continue to seek information about what we're learning about these drugs going forward," Obama added.It is yet to be seen of USA's experimental drugs can remedy the alarming situation.
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