Posted on 08/26/2014 10:07:40 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
A Liberian doctor who received the same Ebola experimental treatment as two Americans has died, officials said. Dr. Abrahim Borbor died Sunday evening after contracting Ebola at a hospital in Monrovia, officials at a treatment facility in the Liberian capital said. Borbor used ZMapp, the same drug given to two Americans who had Ebola. The Democratic Republic of Congo is also reporting new Ebola cases in a northern town, sparking fears that the deadly virus is expanding far beyond West Africa. Two people in Gera tested positive for Ebola, a government spokesman said Sunday.
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Ooops. Paging the USS Nathan James.
Light ‘em up!
It must be a racist drug that only works on whites.
There are diseases that some races are more vulnerable to than other races are. I think one factor is Caucasians from having DNA surviving Black Plague provides antibodies. Another example, smallpox decimating Indian populations in the Americas.
If they don’t do something about the hunger problem, people are going to be fleeing West Africa in droves.
And Ebola will go with them.
BO proudly increased the number of Congo immigrants - 18,000
Why?
I just heard on the Hagmann & Hagmann show that one of the top Ebola researchers was on the plane that was taken down over the Ukraine.
Thanks for posting. Life/health/be prepared BUMP!
Read an article yesterday that said the Congo Ebola was 2 different strains of Ebola and neither were the same as the Zaire Ebola(mutated) outbreak in West Africa. So we now have 3 different strains this year.
Different strains requiring different serums. Then we’ll be faced with the virus building immunities against it and mutating further.
How could this guy get the Zaire serum? I thought we were told there was no more. More lies.
Read a scary comment on one of stories. Ebola never been around so long in an urban environment with so many people. What this gives Ebola is many more chances to mutate and adapt. Scary thought....
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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Bring Out Your Dead
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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...
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Last week, 13 people died of a mysterious ailment in the Boende area in Congo, but the WHO said at the time that their deaths were a result of a "viral hemorrhagic fever of undetermined origin."
This is just too much to accept as a coincidence. Two different strains of ebola AND another hemorrhagic disease too?
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