The new experimental ZMapp Ebola therapy appears to be working, maybe, and there is new money for Ebola treatment on the ground in Africa, plus a possible vaccine going into trials.
Ebola trial drug given to 'improving' US aid workers
More on this treatment below the fold, along with the vaccine.
Ebola crisis: World Bank announces $200m emergency fund
The BBC's Paul Blake in Washington says that in the the short term, the money will be used to pay health workers, dispel rumours about the disease in local communities and address the immediate needs of getting sick people into health facilities.World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim is an infectious diseases specialist, a co-founder and formerly Executive Director of Partners in Health in Haiti, who turned around WHO policy on treatment of MDR-TB (Multiple Drug Resistant Tuberculosis) from letting patients die to treating them effectively. He says
We have a responsibility to that particular region of Africa.