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Ebola Crisis | PBS NewsHour | WHO calls for emergency meeting on Ebola outbreak | PBS News

Two Americans infected with the Ebola virus and being treated in Atlanta have received an experimental drug, Z-Mapp, that had not previously been tested on humans and is in extremely limited supply. The WHO announced the latest rising death toll from the outbreak and said it is convening a medical panel to consider the ethics of making the drug more widely available. Judy Woodruff reports.

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