According to the FOX doc, the drug was 100% successful in treating primates, and will be beginning Phase 2 trials, human testing in West Africa, this week. 10,000 doses could be ready within 6 months.
He called it "a potential game-changer."
Just wanted to share some good news. Let's hope and pray that it's effective in humans.
I'm pretty sure Obama wants to give the big bucks to the folks that make Zmapp.
Very early on, way before Duncan and this outbreak in Africa, I read an article.
One of the scientists was a woman. She had been to the Whitehouse and was at an affair at the side of Obama. They got bucks before. I'm trying to find the article.
I think this is a whole new concept using genetics as the base. Have no idea how it works.
I remember being with scientists years ago and they were talking about getting rid of birth defects genetically.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
So ten volunteers in the US have received the vaccine
and are then being exposed to the virus to test it?
Do they get a reduced sentence if they survive?