Experimental treatments for the Ebola virus have already been administered to westerners who contracted the disease. Now, scientists in London plan on bringing clinical trials to West Africa.

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Ebola survivors prepare to leave a Doctors Without Borders treatment center after recovering from the virus in Paynesville, Liberia, on October 12, 2014. John Moore/Getty Images ...

Ebola survivors' immune systems now make antibodies to the virus. Those antibodies are, essentially, the ideal medicine.

Workers at an Ebola treatment center relax Jan. 10, 2015 in Tubmanburg, Liberia. The facility was built by the U.S. military. (Whitney Leaming/The Washington Post) ...

The newly approved treatment targets Zaire Ebola virus. In a study of 382 adults and children that received it, it cut the risk of dying after 28 days from 51% to 33.8%.

Health workers are seen helping an unconfirmed Ebola patient into her bed inside of a Medecins Sans Frontieres supported Ebola treatment center in Butembo, Congo, Nov. 3, 2018.

This week, All Things Considered asked listeners to send in their questions about Ebola treatment, drugs and vaccines. Here's a lightly edited summary of the conversation about the results, ...

Bomi County, Liberia, has just two doctors. Logan takes care of patients in a holding facility, which has only 12 beds. He can't send them to real Ebola treatment centers because they're all full ...

Ebola survivors prepare to leave a Doctors Without Borders treatment center after recovering from the virus in Paynesville, Liberia, on October 12, 2014. John Moore/Getty Images ...