Ebola sufferer William Pooley has been treated with experimental drug ZMapp, medical staff said today.

Dr Kent Brantly, one of few Ebola survivors with medical expertise, has pleaded for help for countries still struggling with the virus.

The US doctor who was successfully treated after contracting the Ebola virus has today spoken of his relief.

Scientists studying the lethal ebola virus say they have found how it blocks and disables the body’s ability to battle infections in a discovery that should help the search for potential cures and vaccines.

Liberia is facing an excruciating choice – deciding which handful of Ebola patients will receive an experimental drug that could prove either life-saving or life-threatening.

Liberia will soon receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug and give it to two sick doctors, making them the first Africans to receive some of the scarce treatment in a spiralling outbreak.