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Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia — seemingly successfully
CNN Health ^ | September 25, 2014 | Elizabeth Cohen

Posted on 10/03/2014 1:43:14 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs

Dr. Gorbee Logan has given the drug, lamivudine, to 15 Ebola patients, and all but two survived. That's about a 13% mortality rate.

Logan said he got the idea to try lamivudine when he read in scientific journals that HIV and Ebola replicate inside the body in much the same way.

"Ebola is a brainchild of HIV," he said. "It's a destructive strain of HIV."

At first he tried a drug called acyclovir, which is often given to HIV patients to treat infections that occur with their weakened immune systems. But it didn't seem to be effective. Then he tried lamivudine on a health care worker who'd become ill, and within a day or two he showed signs of improvement and survived.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says that theoretically, Logan's approach has some merit. Lamivudine is a nucleocide analog, and other drugs in this class are being studied to treat Ebola.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolatreatment; fauci; hivdrug; lamivudine; logan
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For all patients given the drug in days 0 through 4 of the disease, the recovery rate was 100% 13 out of 13. For the two patients in days 5 and later, 0% recovery rate.

Read the article at the link. CNN is already burying this thing.

Fauci at NIH MAY look into it.

I'm posting this because its already going down the memory hole. NOBODY has picked up this story - no other major other than CNN. No reporter has asked an NIH/CDC spokesman about it. Nobody has asked the President. A doc in some rathole clinic with 12 beds figured it out. Democrats are screaming for money and crying poor mouth about being all out of Zmapp.

Lamivudine, by the way, is beyond its patent protection - anyone can make it. It's used to treat Hep B too.

Hat tip to Black Agnes.

1 posted on 10/03/2014 1:43:14 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Smokin' Joe; null and void

Ping.


2 posted on 10/03/2014 1:44:13 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: RinaseaofDs

The FDA will conduct trials and it will be available for ebola in 2021.


3 posted on 10/03/2014 1:45:40 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: RinaseaofDs

We have a significant budget surplus according to the President and Senate.

We have enough funds to take on the social needs of Mexico, Central and South America.

No reason we can’t ramp up needed production of this and other drugs needed to combat this virus.


4 posted on 10/03/2014 1:47:18 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: RinaseaofDs
Yeh but this is n0ot the company that Obama wants to give seed money to...I forgot the company name but it was the female scientist that interested me. She had been to the Whitehouse at Obama's side for something....

I'm having trouble finding that article.

5 posted on 10/03/2014 1:49:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RinaseaofDs

“Ebola is a brainchild of HIV,” he said. “It’s a destructive strain of HIV.”

Interesting.


6 posted on 10/03/2014 1:49:44 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: RinaseaofDs

Wow. Good post! This needs to be spread (pardon the pun)!


7 posted on 10/03/2014 1:50:18 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; All

Hit all your ping lists before it goes down the memory hole.


8 posted on 10/03/2014 1:51:11 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: rockinqsranch

And HIV is essentially a fungus that responds to anti-fungal meds. Hmmm.


9 posted on 10/03/2014 1:53:53 PM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Lamivudine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamivudine


10 posted on 10/03/2014 1:54:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Seems to me it would be prudent to give the drug to everyone suspected of being infected as a prophylaxis.


11 posted on 10/03/2014 1:54:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Fauci is not at NIH, he’s at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But Logan needs to contact NIH, CDC, etc., too.


12 posted on 10/03/2014 1:55:40 PM PDT by ncdrumr (Oooh, SarahCUda!)
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To: Black Agnes

Hat tip ping.


13 posted on 10/03/2014 1:56:18 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rockinqsranch
“It’s a destructive strain of HIV.”

As opposed to the "I'm tickled pink strain."

14 posted on 10/03/2014 1:56:37 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: RinaseaofDs

To prevent duplication, please do not alter the published headline, thx.


15 posted on 10/03/2014 2:01:07 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: rockinqsranch
“Ebola is a brainchild of HIV,” he said. “It’s a destructive strain of HIV.”

That might explain why it's being downplayed at the federal level. This might imply a link between certain, ahem, behaviors and the disease. People might not be quite as accepting of the practitioners of such behavior as the politically correct dictate.

16 posted on 10/03/2014 2:01:39 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I think this is outstanding news if it pans out. But I can’t help notice how ebola is now being connected to HIV. Maybe this is just how it panned out. But my antennae go up as I sense liberals will create yet another victim class that can’t be discriminated against even if it costs innocent people their lives


17 posted on 10/03/2014 2:01:39 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Sidebar Moderator

The lede was buried. That motivated the alteration. Read the story.


18 posted on 10/03/2014 2:02:47 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

It’s structurally related to favipiravir:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir

Which is already being stockpiled in Japan for use in a flu outbreak:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/08/national/science-health/ebola-drug-japan-may-emerge-among-key-candidates/

And has been shown to halt ebola in the lab:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24462697

Japan has offered its stockpile of enough doses to treat 20K patients to the WHO. So far, crickets...


19 posted on 10/03/2014 2:02:50 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: RinaseaofDs
Bill Gates will put a swift and permanent stop to that.
20 posted on 10/03/2014 2:04:37 PM PDT by bgill (CDC, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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