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Ebola Crisis | PBS NewsHour | WHO approves use of untested drugs to fight Ebola | PBS News

An ethics panel of the World Health Organization unanimously approved using untested drugs to treat Ebola in West Africa, where more than 1,000 people have died from the outbreak so far. A shipment of the U.S.-made drug ZMapp is expected to arrive in Liberia this week, but the drugmaker may have otherwise exhausted its supply. Judy Woodruff reports.

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