MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) -Liberian medical doctor Abraham Borbor, who was injected with the anti-Ebola trial vaccine ZMapp, has died, the country’s information minister said Monday.
“He was walking around yesterday, and the doctors were hopeful that he would make a full recovery," said minister Lewis Brown, as cited by Front Page Africa.
Borbor, along with two doctors from Nigeria and Uganda, received the experimental injections on August 14. Later it was reported that the doctors’ condition had significantly improved.
ZMapp, an experimental biopharmaceutical, was first tested on humans in August 2014. The drug was also received by two Americans who survived and a Spanish priest, who died on August 12.
According to the latest figures released by WHO, the current Ebola outbreak has already claimed 1,427 lives.
