Posted on 08/04/2014 7:08:06 AM PDT by Innovative
Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment.
A representative from the National Institutes of Health contacted Samaritan's Purse in Liberia and offered the experimental treatment, known as ZMapp, for the two patients, according to the source.
The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. The patients were told that this treatment had never been tried before in a human being but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys.
Brantly began to deteriorate and developed labored breathing. He told his doctors, "I am going to die," according to a source with firsthand knowledge of the situation.
Within an hour of receiving the medication, Brantly's condition was nearly reversed. His breathing improved; the rash over his trunk faded away. One of his doctors described the events as "miraculous."
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They will test it on Biden after the Conference.....
The elites won’t suffer if Ebola is unleashed upon everyone...
But we will
Explains how Dr. Brantly exited the ambulance and walked into Emory with the assist of just one aide.
Good news!
Me too, but I doubt that it will happen until the regulatory industry figures out how to get their fair share.
Isn’t that called capitalism?
Sad. . .medicines like this will be a thing of the past, with the Big Zero’s oabamcare killing medical innovation combined with trial lawyers suing the beejesus outta any company that makes a drug that saves 1,000 for every life that is lost.
Got that right. Every other commercial on tv now encourages people to sue drug companies for this or that drug. Doesn’t matter if the drug saves millions of people, if so much as one person is harmed by it, it has to be taken off the market and the company sued into closing down.
Except vaccines. Vaccine manufacturers are indemnified. Totally.
Consider massive doses of vitamin C instead.
One report I read stated that this Ebola strain acts like scurvy on steroids, depleting the body of vitamin C almost completely and so quickly that the immune system cannot rally fast enough to fight it off.
Really a bad time for me to start reading Dan Brown’s Inferno.
Initially, murine antibodies were obtained by hybridoma technology, for which Kohler and Milstein received a Nobel prize.
However the dissimilarity between murine and human immune systems led to the clinical failure of these antibodies, except in some specific circumstances. Major problems associated with murine antibodies included reduced stimulation of cytotoxicity and the formation complexes after repeated administration, which resulted in mild allergic reactions and sometimes anaphylactic shock.
Chimeric and humanized monoclonal antibodies (suffixes -ximab, -zumab respectively)
To reduce murine antibody immunogenicity, murine molecules were engineered to remove immunogenic content and to increase their immunologic efficiency.
This was initially achieved by the production of chimeric and humanized antibodies. Chimeric antibodies are composed of murine variable regions fused onto human constant regions. Human gene sequences, taken from the kappa light chain and the IgG1 heavy chain, results in antibodies that are approximately 65% human. This reduces immunogenicity, and thus increases serum half-life.
More like bribery.
Relax, I also make colloidal silver. Whenever I mention I drink colloidal there is almost always someone who mentions the blue man. I am just passing that along. I have 2-1 ounce silver bars that I set in distilled water and then apply 12 volts DC. It works. I had a pre-cancerous lesion on my face that I applied a cotton ball soaked in the colloid for 1 week and it disappeared.
Yes I have worked in biotech and I was part of clinical trial testing for both murine and chimeric MABs.
In fact I used to clone them for a living.
I checked the company for a listing on the stock exchange and couldn’t find one. That is why I figured it was a privately owned company.
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