It was only a week ago that the death toll in the West African Ebola Outbreak topped 1,000.  Today, the US World Health Organization says it’s now 1,229 patients killed since the beginning of the outbreak earlier this year.  Liberia is reporting what passes for good news in this disaster.

Liberia’s information minister Lewis Brown says three African doctors treated in his country with the experimental drug ZMapp are showing “remarkable signs of improvement.”  Two Americans who were given ZMapp are apparently recovering.  But a Spanish priest died over Ebola disease despite being treated with the largely untested drug.  There is no licensed cure or vaccine for Ebola, which kills at least half of those infected.

Liberia also reports that it has located all of the 17 people who left or were taken from an Ebola treatment center in a destitute neighborhood of Monrovia after a mob of youths with clubs.  It’s not clear if the 17 were taken to other treatment centers.

In Nigeria, the government has yet to confirm reports that the first doctor who treated Liberian-American businessman Patrick Sawyer has died of Ebola disease.  Several African news sources are reporting that Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevohdied died on Tuesday in an isolation center where she had been quarantined along with other doctors and nurses who treated Sawyer when he collapsed at the airport in Lagos, shortly after stepping off a flight from Liberia.