The main treatment center which in Liberia, the most affected country is West Africa's by deadly Ebola outbreak, has urged survivors of the disease to donate their blood for use in treating infected patients,total 2,800 people killed by Ebola outbreaks - most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where it has overwhelmed already fragile health services.
Attai Omoruto said "We need survivors who come, and donate blood,"
According to Studie transfusions from Ebola survivors might prevent or treat infection in others.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said this month that products and serum derived from the blood of survivors could be used to treat the disease until experimental drugs currently under development enter production.
William Pooley, a British man who survived Ebola after being treated in London, flew to the United States this month to donate his blood to help another patient suffering from the haemorrhagic fever.
"The survivors' blood has the antibodies that have fought off the Ebola virus ... When we give this fresh blood to the patients, it can repair their blood vessels so they do not bleed," he said.
At the start of this month,WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said "We will certainly bring this matter to the attention of governments and work with them to stamp out any black market activity,"
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