There's a growing call for help in response to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa as the death toll passed 1,000.
The United Nations is calling on the world to provide doctors, nurses and medical equipment.
A missionary priest from Spain is among the latest to have died from the virus. He was given the same experimental medicine helping two infected Americans improve.
The World Health Organization has given its okay to using untested treatments, but the supply is low.
Darren Kew, an associate professor and executive director of the Center for Peace, Democracy and Development at the UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School, says international efforts to combat the outbreak are underway.
"I think we got a slow start to the crisis when it began in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and we are paying the consequences of that now," he said.
