Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I just found this article — wonder if the medication they mentioned might work against ebola too — since afterall it is a virus...
It is from Scientific American, 2002:
Oral Drug Halts Smallpoxlike Virus in Mice
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oral-drug-halts-smallpoxl/
‘Researchers reported that an oral drug known as hexadecyloxypropyl-cidofovir (HDP-CDV) stymies smallpox and its kin in tissue culture and in mice. “