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 wonder how many deaths he thinks this should take. If a million die, then fast-track it?
Obama hates black people.
Obama’s new power is to keep this drug ... for the EXEMPT.
The EXEMPT who are not under Laws they make for others.
The EXEMPT who are not under DeathCARE and its new taxes.
The EXEMPT who are a special class of Americans,
above all others (with their families and staff, of course).
Must be his white half speaking.
We get 10% of our oil from Nigeria I read somewhere.
If things get out of hand in Lagos I’d expect someone to remind Obama of that.
They don’t serve his agenda and cannot vote for dims. He doesn’t care.
Paging Sting: please pick up the issue-awareness concert phone... please pick up the issue-awareness concert phone.
Bono too.
For those that don’t already know, that experimental drug was developed from a GMO Tobacco plant being cultivated in my own backyard.
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/08/04/3365612/drug-given-to-american-ebola-victims.html
Have a cigar.
Maybe I need to change my name to Kentucky Leaf.
RE: Most rational people,
Alas, if Obama were only rational. He’s proven time and again that he’s not!
The sociopath speaks. African deaths don’t touch him. Doesn’t matter if they are mere children or if the death is painful. Ditto any other deaths that don’t touch him directly. He is without empathy. He thinks only of himself. If the case were made to him that he could be seen as a hero, & this would be a critical part of his legacy, he might allow it. But only because he saw self-benefit. Other than that, he is content to play ‘god’ & allow people he has no personal feeling for to die like plague rats.
August, 2013, U.S. News and World Report
“Ebola Treatment May Be On the Horizon”
“”U.S. Army medical researchers may have found an emergency treatment for the deadly Ebola virus, which is welcome news to biodefense researchers studying ways in which such hemorrhagic fever viruses jump from non-primate species to human beings and how to treat them.
Using antibodies derived from specially engineered tobacco plants, Army medical researchers were able to develop a treatment that provided complete protection for monkeys shortly after they were exposed to Ebola. But, more importantly and promising, the treatment helped even after Ebola symptoms had developed, according to the study in Science Translational Medicine.””
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?
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