The Recovering Americans and the 'Top Secret' Ebola Treatment

Found on The Atlantic on Monday, 04 August 2014
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"One of the doctors called it 'miraculous,'" Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported from Emory this morning, of Brantly's turnaround within hours of receiving a treatment delivered from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Writebol is also reportedly improved since receiving the treatment, known as zMapp. But to say that it was a secret implies a frigid American exceptionalism; that the people of West Africa are dying in droves while a classified cure lies in wait.

This Ebola outbreak is the largest in the history of the disease, in terms of both cases and deaths—729 known so far.

Clearly some people are worth more than others. A lot of those who are currently infected would happily try an experimental serum; Ebola is more than lethal enough so they won't have to think twice. There is not much of a choice for them however because they aren't even offered that chance to survive.