A potential breakthrough in the fight against Ebola could be on the way as an experimental vaccine arrives at the H.Q. of the World Health Organisation.

Canadian medics have sent 800 doses of a new drug to the lab in Geneva.

Yesterday it was revealed that the first person to contract the virus outside West Africa has made a successful recovery.

The Spanish nurse was treated with experimental drugs at first and then the anti-bodies of another patient who had overcome the disease.

Over 4-thousand people have so far died from Ebola and Europe's Foreign Ministers are meeting today to discuss their response to the epidemic.

Among them will be Ireland's Charlie Flanagan who admits it's a daunting challenge: