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Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
Very good question! I do hope it's nothing to do with... if the serum works it'll be a western pharmaceutical company that gets granted the patent... :(This isn't an HIV cure; I don't see much money to be made for an Ebola cure. |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
If it's a vaccine then it may have millions of applications for prevention. |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
If it's a vaccine then it may have millions of applications for prevention.The people who need the vaccine not only can't afford it they will not take it even if it is free. They trust their witch doctors not the blue eyed devil. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24884 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
If it's a vaccine then it may have millions of applications for prevention.The people who need the vaccine not only can't afford it they will not take it even if it is free. They trust their witch doctors not the blue eyed devil. Yep, so that's Africa gone in a few more years, then spread to the Mid-East & Genghis Khan/Alexander the Great would turn in their graves. |
Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26 |
If it's a vaccine then it may have millions of applications for prevention. Most likely it's made from the white blood cells or antibodies from human or animal blood. We have been using treatments like that for many years to prevent illness after exposure and reduce the duration of some illness. It does little good before exposure. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24884 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Social media erupted yesterday, over Ebola, patients coming to Atlanta. Donald Trump tweeted his disapproval of Ebola patients being treated in America. ‘KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE,’ he wrote. |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
If these people weren't in the medical field would they be brought to the US? There is nothing that can be done in the US that can't be done in Africa. The fact they know more about the disease than most and still contracted it is disturbing. |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
If these people weren't in the medical field would they be brought to the US? There is nothing that can be done in the US that can't be done in Africa. The fact they know more about the disease than most and still contracted it is disturbing. Not really if you consider the fact that these doctors are working 12 hour shifts while the conditions are exhausting. Tired people are more likely to make mistake, and with a disease this infectious, making even a tiny mistake can kill you. |
Batter Up Send message Joined: 5 May 99 Posts: 1946 Credit: 24,860,347 RAC: 0 |
...with a disease this infectious, making even a tiny mistake can kill you.So why bring them to an American city where nothing more can be done that can't be done in Africa? They are getting special treatment and the CDC better not make a tiny mistake. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11366 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
There is nothing that can be done in the US that can't be done in Africa. Batter can you back up your assertion? |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
There is nothing that can be done in the US that can't be done in Africa. And perhaps you could do the same with this one? The people who need the vaccine ... will not take it even if it is free. They trust their witch doctors not the blue eyed devil. Is it just one of your sweeping generalisations again? |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
World Health Organization: WHO Ebola outbreak: WHO warns disease is ‘out of control’ as fears of global epidemic grow West Africa’s Ebola outbreak is worse than official figures indicate, and is “moving faster than our efforts to control itâ€, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. In a stark warning, Dr Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director general, said that if the situation continued to deteriorate the consequences would be “catastrophic†both in terms of loss of life, and economic cost, with a “high risk†that the virus would spread to other countries. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-who-warns-disease-is-out-of-control-as-fears-of-global-epidemic-grow-9643752.html |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
You know with everyday that goes i'm wondering are we now in the end times . Wars which have a potential to spread . weather causing crops to fail and wheat prices starting to rise , now a deadly disease that may break out and spread . Have we by our actions made the prophets prophecy come true ! I'm not saying they are true but we have engineered things so they will come true. The devil in a prophecy is not that it comes true but that we make it come true by believeing it in the first place |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30760 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Isn't the outbreak due to global climate change? ;-) |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Isn't the outbreak due to global climate change? ;-) More likely due to man going where man has not been . Clearing jungles and exposing people to diseases that we have never seen IE Columbus bringing Europion disease to the natives in south America |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Isn't the outbreak due to global climate change? ;-) such as the common cold, small pox, and who knows what not. But it wasnt a one way street, Ive read that gonnorhea was a gift of the new world to the old. [/quote] Old James |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
I watched a doco on Pompeii not long ago and apparently in 1 of the cellar's they found a group of ppl there and 2 girls had Gonnorhea and it means it may have already been in Europe a long time before Columbus .It's a recent finding don't know how true it is i can only tell you what they said in the doco . |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
this is scary. Why Ebola Doctor in Tennessee Is in Quarantine He was exposed to the virus while working at a west Africa hospital. A Tennessee doctor who placed himself in quarantine after volunteering in West Africa, where the Ebola virus is rampant, says he's "feeling well" and showing no sign of symptoms. Alan Jamison, a retired pediatrician, returned home to Morristown, Tenn., after he was evacuated from Liberia by the aid group he was volunteering for -- working at the same hospital as Dr. Kent Brantly, an American now fighting the deadly virus. http://abcnews.go.com/US/tenn-man-quarantine-ebola-outbreak-im-feeling/story?id=24810734 |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Yes Lynn it is . maybe they need to Qauratine anybody on the plane that was with him as well . I hope for his sack he hasn't got it . He sounds like he is doing the right thing but i do have to wonder about those on the plane with him on the way back . |
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