(Google)WHO is accelerating its efforts with nine countries neighbouring Congo to try to prevent the current Ebola outbreak from spreading beyond the border, WHO's director for Africa said Wednesday. Excellent communication between the clinical teams treating patients, public health teams, patients and communities around what's happening is key. Treatment trialU.S. health authorities said they were preparing to send an experimental Ebola treatment to Congo to use in aclinical trial aimed at stemming the outbreak. The treatment is made from the antibodies of the survivor of an Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Congo, in 1995. More than 11,300 people died in an Ebola outbreak in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2013 and 2016.

Source: CBC News May 23, 2018 11:15 UTC