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 ...
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.
Ping.
The FDA will conduct trials and it will be available for ebola in 2021.
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.
I'm having trouble finding that article.
“Ebola is a brainchild of HIV,” he said. “It’s a destructive strain of HIV.”
Interesting.
Wow. Good post! This needs to be spread (pardon the pun)!
Hit all your ping lists before it goes down the memory hole.
And HIV is essentially a fungus that responds to anti-fungal meds. Hmmm.
Lamivudine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamivudine
Seems to me it would be prudent to give the drug to everyone suspected of being infected as a prophylaxis.
Fauci is not at NIH, he’s at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But Logan needs to contact NIH, CDC, etc., too.
Hat tip ping.
As opposed to the "I'm tickled pink strain."
To prevent duplication, please do not alter the published headline, thx.
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.
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
The lede was buried. That motivated the alteration. Read the story.
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:
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...
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