Posted on 08/07/2014 8:59:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama hedged on an ethics question about whether Africans should receive the same experimental drug that put two Americans stricken with Ebola on the path to recovery, telling reporters at the conclusion of the U.S.-African Leaders Summit that efforts to rein in the disease should focus on prevention instead.
But as the epidemic grows within West Africa, the Arab world saw its first possible Ebola death as a businessman in his 40s returning to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Sierra Leone died two days after being admitted to King Fahd Hospital with symptoms of viral hemorrhagic fever.
Saudi Arabia had already banned pilgrims from affected countries from making the hajj to Mecca. Arab News reported that officials there retraced the businessman’s steps and are now monitoring people he contacted before checking into the hospital.
Two American healthcare workers who were aiding Ebola victims in Liberia were gravely ill before receiving the experimental serum, ZMapp, which had only been tested on animals by San Diego company Mapp Biopharmaceutical. They are now recovering at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
“I think we’ve got to let the science guide us,” Obama said at a press conference this evening when asked if the FDA should fast-track approval and perhaps save lives in Africa as well. “And you know, I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful.”
Nigerian officials are reportedly interested in acquiring the drug. The doctor who treated American Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian government official who died in the country after flying into Lagos, is now ill with Ebola and eight other cases are confirmed or probable.
The World Health Organization announced today it would convene a panel of medical ethicists next week to discuss if the drug should be used on others and who should receive it.
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“I think we’ve got to let the science guide us,” Obama said ..
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This is very close to your most basic problem, Mr. Obama.
(Personally, I do NOT think Obama believes in God. I think he is agnostic.)
Wouldn’t it be interesting if the drug was not what helped these Christian medical workers, but instead it was God answering prayer? Oh no....that would be bad news for a lot of people.
I heard a black guy on the radio today who basically said: who knows what this drug will do, better to try it on a couple of people (the white folks at Emory now) than go and give it to tens of thousands of (black) people.
I don’t know who the guy was, he’s on a new (to me anyway) Sirius Channel called “Urban Radio” or something like that.
Armstrong Williams is on in the PM, and this was the morning guy. I don’t know if he’s a conservative or what.
But then he was getting annoying even though I agreed with him, so changed the channel and never got his name.
RE: the research at Scripps who worked with the Mapp people just a mile from where I’m sitting was on KOGO this morning to explain the process
How confident is he that it’s working?
Very logical. I'm sure we will be guided by the science just as with gore-bull warming.
Why should our fascist leader start caring about Africans now? The fascist EPA achieved great success by banning DDT and causing hundreds of thousands in Africa to die of malaria. Mayhap those on the left are anxious to speed up the African death process with this Ebola epidemic.
Exactly how much [experimental Ebola formula] is on hand, and exactly how long does it take to produce more?
Oh, and a second question. Did Obama say we might need all the experimental Ebola serum for the USA, & therefore could not spare any for Africa? Is that the official reason for withholding it?
Want to bet that he’s waiting for a bigger bribe from the company or companies? There is at least one more serum being tested by the FDA.
I don’t know, am I supposed to?
RE: There is at least one more serum being tested by the FDA.
What is the news source for this? Thanks.
Perhaps you should explain why at this early stage, as it appears to be breaking out and is in the giant city of Lagos, that we should be shipping our doses to Africa?
I can’t answer the question you posed to me unless I know exactly how much of this experimental Ebola serum has already been manufactured & exactly how long it takes to make more.
& btw, neither can you.
Four companies working on Ebola treatments/preventives. I like Tekmira, a Canadian firm, currently in fast-track negotiation with the FDA.
Here’s info on the four:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-ebola-researching-biotech-companies-131536033.html
That is a very firm and condemning statement, and clearly states that you want our promising Ebola drug doses shipped to the Africans.
To: Fantasywriter
Don’t you think it might be a little early in this outbreak to be getting rid of our experimental Ebola medicine by sending it to Africa?
19 posted on 8/7/2014 9:16:11 AM by ansel12
Unless you can explain it and convince the blacks in Africa it’s probably going to be too late.
The rumor mill has taken over.
In the minds of black Africans there is a cure and the whites are withholding it.
They have set up a wholesale slaughter of whites in Africa by announcing the possibility of a cure then withholding it.
You have no idea who much anti-Ebola serum has already been made. You haven’t a clue how long it takes to make more. So you are blowing mindless smoke. Get me those two answers, & we’ll talk. Short of that, stop making baseless accusations.
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