On Sunday it was announced the man would receive the experimental Zmapp treatment, which the U.S. has now authorized for use in Liberia. However, the firm behind the serum said its supply has been exhausted.
Miguel Pajares, a Spanish missionary priest who contracted the Ebola virus in West Africa, has died in a hospital in Madrid, reports the Associated Press.
Spanish priest Miguel Pajares is loaded into an ambulance on the tarmac of Torrejon airbase in Madrid on August 7.
Handout / Reuters
On Saturday, the Spanish government said that Pajeres - the first European infected by the strain, would be treated with the untested ZMapp serum, Reuters reported.
Following his death, Madrid's Carlos III Hospital did not confirm that he had been treated with the drug, according to AP.
The treatment, which hasn't been tested on humans, has also been given to the two Americans who contracted the virus.
The Liberian Government announced the news via a statement on the presidency's website. The drug will be used to treat Liberian doctors who contracted the disease.
Liberian information minister Lewis Brown told Reuters that it was unclear how many does of the drug had been sent, but they could be in the country's capital, Monrovia, within the next 48 hours, Al Jazeera says.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization released a statement regarding the ethical considerations regarding the use of untested Ebola treatments.
After convening yesterday, the WHO decided that the unregistered treatments were ethical in the particular circumstances of this outbreak, providing certain conditions are met.
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