Posted on 10/06/2014 11:08:08 AM PDT by palmer
Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who is fighting a severe Ebola infection in Dallas, is getting an experimental treatment, the hospital announced Monday.
The drug is an investigational medication, brincidofovir, for Ebola Virus Disease.
Chimerix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company today announced that brincidofovir has been provided for potential use in patients with Ebola Virus Disease. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at thescoopblog.dallasnews.com ...
He didn't arrive on a flight from West Africa.
The ban has to be on passports, not flights.
Yeah. And now his liver has failed, probably from all the drugs. So I guess now, pending his recovery, he’ll get a liver transplant.
Don’t think he’s going to recover though. We will see.
I read that yesterday! That he had died. What’s going on?
The disease overwhelms the immune system
The doctor in Africa used AIDS suppression medication,since he had no access to other medications.
Ebola seems to have more severe reactions to 14 - 39 year olds, and the severity may be related increased immune sytems ( increased self-destruct system ?)
Best way to fight it off is: Quarantine, isolation, knowledge of the disease(how,where,)anti-viral controls (ie: water/bleach @10 partswater/1 part bleach), avoidance.
If contracted: analygesics, anti-Diarrhea medication, electrolite replacement, hydration , saline IV's, fever suppression, etc.
Actually liver failure is what ebola does. It’s one of the organs the ebola preferentially attacks.
Just one source said he was dead (Israeli newspaper). Didn’t get confirmed.
False report alledged via Reuters
I heard some doctor is using retrovirals - with a ~70% mortality rate you dont need much of a sample size.
Np it came from Israel news first.
No clue about the tail.
But the Liberian doc said acyclovir didn’t work. A quick glance at the structure shows a 5 member ring joined to the 6 member ring. May inhibit binding to the substrate.
“He is now receiving an investigational medication, brincidofovir, for Ebola Virus Disease,” hospital spokeswoman Candace White said in a tweet.
The announcement that he is now being treated with an experimental anti-viral medication called brincidofovir comes the same day that the Food and Drug Administration approved its use in experimental cases.
Brincidofovir is produced by Chimerix, a Durham, North Carolina-based company and was approved through an Emergency Investigational New Drug Applications program by the FDA.
LOL! $100,000.00/day EASY. If he survives, it will cost a couple of million for a month stay on the LOW side.
Makes sense. The virus likes to breed in endothelial cells.
Oops yeah that’s right, I think he took a flight from Brussels. Which reminds me: What is Belgium doing about that? For all we know he could have shook hands with 100 people.
I worry about the long-term effects of a cure that might cause the disease to mutate into something that spreads more easily.
My dad always said there was only one way to cure an egg-sucking dog. With a .22 rifle. Anyone as selfish as this a**hole to put an entire nation at risk to save self, if he does recover should be put in a work camp for the rest of his days to pay back for his treatment. Worthless heathen will be death of this republic. The whole world bitches about how awful Americans are but we are who the fools run to first. How is that for irony? Like the stupid hollyweird crowd howls about the conservative patriots who make this nation great but if it wasn’t for us the little commie freaks wouldn’t have a haven to make their pornographic, immoral filth for the big screen would they?
Only for U.S. Citizens on Obamacare.
“I heard his sister bitch’n about him not getting good treatment”
I wish I could say what I think about that .
But I have been informed that, no, not anytime soon.
HPV is a tough nut to crack.
I am wagering that no one has the foggiest how long it will be to get a decent Obola treatment. These nucleo experimentals may not work.
ZMapp is grown using genetically engineered tobacco plants. The plants are infected with a virus that has been modified to produce ZMapp when it replicates. The leaves are then ground up and the antibodies extracted.
The production cycle is a few months.
It would be better to save the money needed to deploy US troops to West Africa and instead spend it on making sure the West African docs have all the lamivudine and brincidofovir they need.
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