UN Ebola chief to tackle security, political issues in DRC

GENEVA - The United Nations named an Emergency Ebola Response Coordinator on Thursday to help improve efforts to contain a 10-month epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed more than 1,200 people.

“He will oversee the coordination of international support for the Ebola response and work to ensure that an enabling environment - particularly security and political - is in place to allow the Ebola response to be even more effective,” it said. Both vaccines are experimental drugs that can be used under strictly controlled research protocols, but Merck’s has been used throughout the outbreak and has proven highly effective, the WHO says.

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