Posted on 08/04/2014 1:08:30 PM PDT by blam
Kevin Loria
August. 4, 2014
Both of the Ebola-infected U.S. citizens in Liberia received a rare dose of what news reports called a "secret serum" to treat the virus before being transported to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to a CNN report. And while some people do fight off the disease on their own, in the case of the two Americans, that experimental serum may have saved their lives.
As Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol waited in a Liberian hospital, someone from the National Institutes of Health reached out to Samaritan's Purse, one of the two North Carolina-based Christian relief groups the two were working with, and offered to have vials of an experimental drug called ZMapp sent to Liberia.
Although the Food and Drug Administration does allow experimental drugs to occasionally be distributed in life-threatening circumstances without approval under the expanded access or "compassionate use" conditions, it's not yet clear whether that approval was granted in this case or not.
A spokesperson for the FDA told Business Insider that federal law and FDA regulations prohibit them from commenting on specific products, is considered confidential.
An Emergency Treatment
However it was approved, three frozen vials of ZMapp, a drug being developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical, were flown to Liberia and arrived the morning of Thursday July 31.
The serum needed eight to 10 hours to thaw.
Brantly, who had been sick for nine days already, reportedly had asked that Writebol receive the first dose, as he was younger and thought he had a better chance of surviving. (It's unclear from the CNN story why the doses apparently were not all ready at the same time.)
But his condition worsened as the first dose thawed, and CNN reports that he told his doctors, "I am going to die."
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Life/health BUMP! Thanks for posting.
Interesting ping.
Will Dustin Hoffman please pick up the white courtesy phone? Dustin Hoffman.
If it were me, I’d be on the phone to NanoViricides ASAP.
If it were me, I’d be on the phone to NanoViricides ASAP.
Yup. Bet the calls are backed up.
Mapp Biopharmaceutical? I believe is a CA company....
The BI article is utter crap. It isn’t “everything we know” about the top secret serum.
First, the antibodies are created not by injecting mice with Ebola, but by splitting up Ebola DNA into fragments...into thirds. Each third is injected into a different mouse.
The blood of the three mice then gets combined to form the antibody.
That’s vastly different than injecting pure Ebola into one mouse.
Second, the serum’s company is funded by USAMRIID (our military version of the CDC) and by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
That suggests direct involvement with our spy community.
BI knew none of the above. They are idiots.
Barry will likely jointly give La Raza, SEIU and Democrat Underground the contract to ration the serum if Ebola breaks out in the US.
Thanks for that info.
I am reading Hot Zone, which has a lot about the Army’s work . Throughout the whole thing I am asking myself about how the Reston virus came to the US sounds more like biowarfare than not.
I am sure there are lots of stories like that out there.
Given that a lot of ebola care is fluid replacement, it just might.
LOL!
Don’t forget the “ conference” of African nations taking place at the white hut.
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