British Ebola patient Will Pooley taking experimental drug ZMapp

British Ebola patient Will Pooley taking experimental drug ZMapp

‘Will Pooley, the first British person to contract the Ebola virus, has been given an experimental drug as part of his treatment in London, it has been revealedon Tuesday.
Pooley, a 29-year-old nurse from Eyke in Suffolk, was flown back to the UK by the RAF on Sunday after contracting Ebola while volunteering at a treatment centre for people with the deadly virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Dr Michael Jacobs, clinical director of infectious diseases at the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead, north London, where Pooley is being treated in a specialist unit, said he was doing well, describing him as a ‘resilient and remarkable young man’.’
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