After all the suspected Ebola cases in Ghana proved negative, Ghanaians can continue to heave a collective sigh of relief over a dodged bullet. The situation, however, remains dire in our neighbouring West African countries.

Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea seem to have had the worst impact so far. The situation has become so terrible in Liberia corpses are reportedly left to rot by roadsides, due to fear of contracting the disease through handling of the bodies.

It seems there is some good news on the horizon for Liberia, though, after Pharmaceutical giants Mapp announced its store of the experimental Ebola cure Zmapp was exhausted, as it had all been sent to West Africa to help in the treatment of the deadly virus.

Zmapp is the experimental cure that was used on two US aid workers, who has since shown signs of improvement and continue to be monitored. The drug, according to the company was provided at no cost to the Liberian government.

The intervention came through after Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made a plea to the US government, who according to the BBC, simply put them in touch with Mapp Pharmaceuticals.

There have been concerns over the use of an experimental drug in the treatments, as so far the most advanced tests has been on monkeys, but the World Health Organisation this morning has ruled the use of the drug’s ethical.

A panel of experts met in Geneva to contemplate the issue, and after some deliberations released a statement.

The statement in part said, “In the particular circumstances of this outbreak, and provided certain conditions are met, the panel reached consensus that it is ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects , as potential treatment or prevention”

This ostensibly puts the Liberian government in the all-clear to administer the drugs to infected patients.

WHO estimates about 1,013 deaths from the deadly virus so far, and with the heavily populated Nigeria the latest country to suffer the outbreak it seems there lie more dark days ahead.

But for today, Liberia can have a little hope that Zmapp would work for their citizens just as much as it worked for the two American aid workers.