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To: SeekAndFind

ZMapp is not a vaccine. It’s a treatment, after the fact, if you are infected.

Do journalists just not understand basic scientific terminology?


2 posted on 10/16/2014 8:22:21 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

There is no vaccine.

At best people can get transfused with antibodies from survivors but its not a cure or even prevention - its a palliative.

Hope is not a strategy.


5 posted on 10/16/2014 8:24:10 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Black Agnes

SOURCE:

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/72888/israelis-respond-to-ebola-with-preparedness-innovation

EXCERPT:

Scientists working on Ebola treatments may soon be looking to Israeli-owned pharmaceutical company CollPlant, reports the Times of Israel.

The company uses tobacco plants to manufacture human proteins, which are used in Zmapp, the only Ebola treatment on the horizon.

The company’s founder, Oded Shoseyov, is optimistic that CollPlant could assist in curbing the spread of the deadly virus. “We didn’t invent the method, but we have taken it farther than anyone else,” he told the newspaper.


7 posted on 10/16/2014 8:24:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: Black Agnes

“Journalists” use idiotic terms like “big pharma” ... people who use terms like that usually aren’t too bright.


8 posted on 10/16/2014 8:24:33 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Black Agnes

Zmapp is a combination of three Ebola antibodies that is produced in tobacco plants. Other plants could be used, tobacco is however a good choice...

There are no tobacco products in the produced Zmapp.
(i.e. no nicotine) The tobacco plants are just manipulated into manufacturing the antibodies.


17 posted on 10/16/2014 8:37:13 AM PDT by Bobalu (Hashem Yerachem (May God Have Mercy)
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To: Black Agnes

Israel should require other countries to give full recognition of Jerusalem as their capital before allowing them to buy this.


18 posted on 10/16/2014 8:38:22 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: Black Agnes
"Do journalists just not understand basic scientific terminology?"

NO.....besides nothing will be done other than looking like something is being done....UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION....A FACT.

25 posted on 10/16/2014 8:46:37 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Black Agnes

I was just going to say the exact same thing.


32 posted on 10/16/2014 8:59:01 AM PDT by Minsc
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To: Black Agnes
"Do journalists just not understand basic scientific terminology?"

No, they don't understand much of anything..

They don't understand basic economics.

They don't understand faith.

They don't understand Mathematics, Statistics, nor Physics.

Not much at all.

36 posted on 10/16/2014 9:02:15 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: Black Agnes
Do journalists just not understand basic scientific terminology?

I would assume that is a rhetorical question.

37 posted on 10/16/2014 9:10:06 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are much like bananas. They start off green, turn yellow then rot.)
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To: Black Agnes

“Do journalists just not understand basic scientific terminology?”

My guess would be no. I once read somewhere that the vast majority of journalists were the C and D students in school.


40 posted on 10/16/2014 9:17:37 AM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
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To: Black Agnes
Do journalists just not understand basic scientific terminology?

It's not required in journalism schools........................

41 posted on 10/16/2014 9:21:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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