Posted on 10/23/2014 7:59:46 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Why didn’t African nations develop Ebola vaccine?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
I rest my case, though sending the NYC UN peeps to Harare might focus their interest in Africa.
Should 0bola gain a foothold in the “wild” fauna in the US, Canada and Mexico, we could have a real problem.
What, I consider that a success!
Producing a product that no one would buy; that would be a failure.
What possible purpose could there be for producing a product aimed at people that could not afford to pay the cost driven price?
Very fearful of that man as he is completely unchecked due to spineless GOPe
Most drug companies have resisted spending the enormous sums needed to to develop products useful mostly to poor countries with little ability to pay for them.
And the source of those enormous costs is ... ?
~Government Regulation
~Government waste—such as synchronized swimming shrimp @ CDC :(
Thanks for the ping!
depending on the texture, would replace the sears catalogue, or the left hand of muslims.
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...
The muslims use something? In his wonderful 1993 book, Baghdad Without a Map, Tony Horwitz says of Khartoum (capitol of Sudan, a 97% muslim country): “I mean, the place is total dreck. Literally. The streets are paved with shit.”
Heartless Bass tard...
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Yeah, well, that is during, and because of. Not disputing the location, I was referring to after the fact, as it were.
I generally agree with you, but in response to your question I would have to respond; the moment Thomas Duncan boarded a plane destined for the United States.
I believe the value of the “wonder-drug” is zero.
You look at Africa and it’s marginal health care situation. Doctors and nurses don’t match up to US standard. You don’t see very many Ebola patients with IV solutions hooked up. Fever drugs in Africa? Few being used. Standard liquid foods that you’d have in the US? Rarely seen in Africa.
Yet, they get a 10-percent survivor rate. The media would make you think it’s 100-percent death rate but they squeeze ten percent of the folks, onto surviving. So this ought to make you think....just identifying it early and getting standard IV solutions, fever drugs, and liquids into it....will beat the thing, and give an American probably around 90-percent chance of living.
So this wonder-drug talk? It’s hyped up and bogus. They will pay tens of billions, for nothing.
I’m starting to suspect a year from now, many American states and territories will be trying to sell off or give away thousands of unused Haz Mat Suits. I agree that it’s starting to look as if this virus can be treated by keeping the patient properly nourished, hydrated, cleansed and isolated. Some will die anyway, but I doubt if the mortality rate becomes as consistently high here vs in Liberia. We must have a clear plan to dispose of the dead. Incineration would most likely be the best route. No embalming, which would release all manner of noxious, infectious gases into the atmosphere.
The trump card in this deal is that once you get it....you then have immunity from it for around ten years (some more, some less). I could see this coming around and being a ‘forever’ problem, but simply treated in the same fashion each time. I’d agree on weaker immune folks dying off (drug users, diabetes, HIV, etc)....but I think a healthy guy would easily survive with standard care, and no wonder-drug.
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
...while the NIH and CDC funded studies about gun control and lesbian obesity.
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