Two American Ebola patients given experimental therapy

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 15:10 in Health & Medicine

The two American missionaries who contracted Ebola in Liberia have been treated with an experimental therapy that consists of antibodies to fragments of the deadly virus.

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