Posted on 08/04/2014 5:37:30 PM PDT by Nachum
An experimental serum given to Christian aid workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus was manufactured by a San Diego pharmaceutical firm using plants, the company and U.S. health authorities disclosed Monday. As Dr. Kent Brantly fights for his life in a special containment unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, and missionary Nancy Writebol prepares to be evacuated from Liberia on Tuesday, details began to emerge about a mysterious treatment they were given shortly after they became infected. The drug, which was produced by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., is called ZMapp and has not been evaluated for safety in humans, according
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Did the LA Times just admit that there were Christian aid workers in Africa putting themselves at risk for ebola?
Wow!
They could have left out the Christian part. All other MSM on this topic has never mentioned this.
Kool. Sounds like it could be developed into a "scrubbing bubbles" treatment to eliminate fatty buildups in the walls of the arteries.
Nicotiana - flowering tobacco
http://flowers.about.com/od/Annual-Flowers/p/Nicotiana-The-Flowering-Tobacco.htm
Hopefully the success of Mapp Biotech will lift all boats.
“You didn’t mix that!!!”
Lol...ya beat me to it...
Where are the Muslims, the “fabric of our nation”???
Bad news. They’ve dispensed two of the three existing doses. There still is one available for Obama.
What if ?
The two doctors were helping the afflicted and testing a promising ‘cure’ on a new strain of the virus.
This new strain would eventually be released upon the world, with only the elite having access to the serum.
Only problem was, the only two doctors who would do this work got infected. Had to rush them back to the US and give them the serum that had been developed based on the results the doctors were finding with previous formulations of the serum.
Nah.... couldn’t happen. ; )
Follow the money.
E-1011
Ha ha. But it took TWO doses for Brantley to start showing improvement.
If this were a cure for cancer, the FDA would require 7+ years of testing before it would be available to help the public.
Anyone notice the obligatory “only bodily fluids, not airborne” mantra? I have seen that in virtually every article I’ve read about ebola. Wishing don’t make it so.
monoclonal anti-bodies have been around for awhile. They are not mysteries but rather solutions in search of problems. If this turns out to be as positive as it seems at first blush it will be a very good thing
To a certain extent that is true, everyone has help. To that extent, society “built that.”But, as Thomas Paine pointed out at the very start of his Common Sense,
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.But, even admitting that much, “you” - the businessman who owns a business - would not own that for long, never mind start it up in the first place, without a great deal of initiative and commitment. The dirty little secret is that profit or loss is a small difference of large numbers - and that attention to detail makes the difference between a profit and a devastating loss. And if “society” is responsible, no one in particular is actually responsible - and those details will not get attended to.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
And that is why society rewards “you” with profits for assuming that responsibility and executing it - and punishes you with losses if you assume that responsibility and fail to execute it.
Companies fail every day. The “You didn’t build that” crowd consists of people to whom that reality is is actually painfully clear. If they actually believed it was as easy to make a profit as they make it sound, they would be doing it themselves instead of second-guessing the ones who did it successfully.
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