Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Treating Ebola

An American doctor who was infected by ebola in Africa is now being treated in America. But before he left Africa, he was given an experimental drug that seems to have greatly improved his condition. Why isn’t that drug available to everyone infected with the disease?

By Madeleine Brand • Aug 4, 2014 • 1 min read

An American doctor who was infected by ebola in Africa is now being treated in America. But before he left Africa, he was given an experimental drug that seems to have greatly improved his condition. Why isn’t that drug available to everyone infected with the disease? And scientists have come forward saying that the technology to develop an ebola vaccine exists. So why don’t we have an ebola vaccine?

Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Andrew Walsh
Too Beautiful to Live
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Matt Holzman
Producer, 'The Document'
Daniel Bausch
associate professor of tropical medicine at Tulane University.

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Treating Ebola

An American doctor who was infected by ebola in Africa is now being treated in America. But before he left Africa, he was given an experimental drug that seems to have greatly improved his condition. Why isn’t that drug available to everyone infected with the disease?

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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Treating Ebola

An American doctor who was infected by ebola in Africa is now being treated in America. But before he left Africa, he was given an experimental drug that seems to have greatly improved his condition. Why isn’t that drug available to everyone infected with the disease?

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