The move comes after the World Health
Organization decided it was ethical in the circumstances to offer untested
drugs to people infected by the virus.
The Canadian government has only around 1,500 doses of the vaccine,
which it invented a few years ago. It has been effective in animals but has
never been tested on humans.
The Ebola outbreak is the world’s largest and deadliest. More than 1000
people have died, the majority of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
On Tuesday the first European died of Ebola. Spanish priest Miguel
Pajares was working at a Catholic hospital in the Liberian capital when he
contracted the virus.
The 75-year-old was airlifted back to Spain last week. He had been
treated with the US experimental drug, Zmapp but died in hospital in Madrid
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