Congo's health ministry says two of the first 10 people to receive an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus in the latest outbreak have recovered, and monitoring could show what role the treatment played. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday congratulated Congo's government for making several experimental treatments available in this Ebola outbreak, calling it "a global first, and a ray of hope for people with the disease." The two people received the mAb114 treatment isolated from a survivor of an Ebola outbreak in 1995. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/keystone/AP)77 confirmed cases in CongoCongo says 77 Ebola cases have been confirmed, including 39 deaths and 11 recoveries. Nearly 3,000 people in this outbreak have received an experimental Ebola vaccine.

Source: CBC News August 25, 2018 17:37 UTC