World Health Organization

The use of an experimental drug to treat two Americans diagnosed with Ebola is raising ethical questions about who gets first access to unproven new therapies for the deadly disease. But some health experts fear debate over limited doses will distract from tried-and-true measures to curb the growing outbreak _ things like more rapidly identifying and isolating the sick...

The head of the World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is out of control. WHO chief Margaret Chan warned today that the outbreak is moving faster than international efforts to control it. Chan met today with the presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast to talk about the worst outbreak in the history of the disease...