[EBH]

It comes as health campaigners today called for U.S. authorities to speed up their approval of a new drug hoped to be the first cure for the deadly Ebola virus.

They are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States to fast-track their authorisation of the TKM-Ebola drug.

The petition, created on change.org, states: 'One of the most promising is TKM-Ebola manufactured by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals.

'This drug has been shown to be highly effective in killing the virus in primates and Phase 1 clinical trials to assess its safety in humans were started earlier this year.'

[EBH]

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[FlingWingFlyer]

This has the potential to get very, very ugly.

[ProudFossil]

I caught a little bit about this on CNN (I think that was the channel, I was basically surfing) in which the reporter gave numbers of affected and dead from the disease. His/her numbers were more than twice given in this article. I do remember the statement was made that over 2,000 had died.

[EBH]

Ping!

You were saying something about 30,000?

[lee martell]

Something ‘happened’ in 2013 to put Ebola into turbo-high gear. I do not believe this is an accident. Ebola was on it’s way out just two years back, now look as it approaches a full scale pandemic. For now, all we can do is pratice UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS, the same thing you do to guard against the spread of MRSA and other ugly bugs; #1. Do not overuse anti-bacterial soap.#2. Do wash your face arms and hands after encountering a person with this disease. #3. While at ‘adult play’ use protection, as one should be doing anyway to guard against Gonnorhea and others. #4. Wear Gloves while cleaning up any bodily fluids not your own. This is getting serious.

[Diogenesis]

The EXEMPT Princes:
"Let's leave the border open AND give Obama more money to
find, escort and bring more incurable diseases in."

[TangledUpInBlue]

The sky is falling

[LadyBuck]

Better cash in on that Nigerian Trust fund money, before all the wire-transfer bankers croak!

[BenLurkin]

Human-to-human transmission occurs via direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person.

Hmmm......I wonder which “lifestyle” community is most likely to be the vector here in the states.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

As long as they bring fulminating Ebola victims to testify before Congress and be interviewed by media people.

[Vince Ferrer]

Jim Iyke’s reaction to flee the area is very natural, but people fleeing the area is exactly what will spread the disease.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Here’s a preview of a possible future - the fun starts at 30 seconds.

http://vimeo.com/58434926

[Doomonyou]

later

[DoughtyOne]

I do think this needs to be watched, but the coverage is becoming somewhat hysterical IMO.

How many times over the last five years have we been led to believe massive portions of human populations were going to be lost due to some disease or another?

30,000 linked...

Good grief!

[PghBaldy]

There has never been a cure for a virus.

[Qiviut]

Nigerian health officials try to trace 30,000 people ...

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This does not give me great confidence ..........

[PATRIOT1876]

Send a few patients to ride along with ISIS. Let them join MS-13

[Chgogal]

Yikes Ping-a-Ling!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There needs to be a scale of infectability of various pulmonary pathogens. It is a reasonable idea based on several variables.

1) Novelty of pathogen. People are constantly being infected with pathogens their immune systems are familiar with, and have defenses against. A familiar pathogen that can still infect requires much greater relative concentration, that is, more contamination all at once, than does a novel pathogen.

2) Heat and humidity. Influenza transmits by coughing and sneezing best at 40F and low humidity. Higher temperatures and humidity make its transmission far more reliant on hand contamination.

3) Proximity of the infected person to those not infected. That is, physical distance over time matters. Being in a plane with recycled air makes transmission far more likely than being in a large room with open windows.

4) General hygiene of a place. The developed world spends a lot more time and effort cleaning and sanitizing, which can tend to make immune systems weaker by reduced exposure to all pathogens. But it also eliminates a lot of contamination that could spread disease.

5) Cultural traditions. People with infectious diseases tend to be avoided in the developed world. Even family members with dangerous diseases will be shunned so as not to infect the rest of the family. And those with dangerous diseases are often quarantined by the authorities, to protect the public. Well over a hundred years experience with this.

[Old Yeller]

And here I expected to die in the next few years as a result of a government bullet. Now it may be Ebola instead.