Yikes.
I posted that article to the wrong thread. Sorry. Thanks for finding that one and posting it in the correct thread.
And yes, that’s pretty much what happened at an ER in Canada during the SARS breakout. One hospital had a SARS patient show up in the ER, handled them quickly with a minimum of exposure to everyone involved. In another hospital the patient sat in the ER for 8 or 10 hrs hacking coughing and snotting on all and sundry and there was a cluster of infections from that.
Just imagine this fall if you are in the ER if the man next to you is hacking coughing and vomiting. Is it just a case of seasonal flu or is it something else entirely.
http://news.yahoo.com/experimental-ebola-drug-heals-monkeys-study-170316163.html
h/t Tilted Irish Kilt.
Good news for people in first world countries. Not great news for the African victims.
ZMapp is unsustainable for the outbreak in Africa.
It’s in short supply, expensive, and requires an extensive cold chain that can not be broken.
‘Exciting’, yes. Small molecules are better.
And it uses sequences that may be out of date by the time the plant itself matures to the point it can be harvested for use. See the Science paper about how quickly this thing is mutating. Which explains all the false negatives in Sierra Leone :(