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Obama Says It’s ‘Premature’ to Fast-Track Promising Ebola Drug, Share with Africa
Pajamas Media ^ | 08/07/2014 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 08/07/2014 8:59:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Obama hedged on an ethics question about whether Africans should receive the same experimental drug that put two Americans stricken with Ebola on the path to recovery, telling reporters at the conclusion of the U.S.-African Leaders Summit that efforts to rein in the disease should focus on prevention instead.

But as the epidemic grows within West Africa, the Arab world saw its first possible Ebola death as a businessman in his 40s returning to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Sierra Leone died two days after being admitted to King Fahd Hospital with symptoms of viral hemorrhagic fever.

Saudi Arabia had already banned pilgrims from affected countries from making the hajj to Mecca. Arab News reported that officials there retraced the businessman’s steps and are now monitoring people he contacted before checking into the hospital.

Two American healthcare workers who were aiding Ebola victims in Liberia were gravely ill before receiving the experimental serum, ZMapp, which had only been tested on animals by San Diego company Mapp Biopharmaceutical. They are now recovering at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

“I think we’ve got to let the science guide us,” Obama said at a press conference this evening when asked if the FDA should fast-track approval and perhaps save lives in Africa as well. “And you know, I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful.”

Nigerian officials are reportedly interested in acquiring the drug. The doctor who treated American Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian government official who died in the country after flying into Lagos, is now ill with Ebola and eight other cases are confirmed or probable.

The World Health Organization announced today it would convene a panel of medical ethicists next week to discuss if the drug should be used on others and who should receive it.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; ebola; obama
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1 posted on 08/07/2014 8:59:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder how many deaths he thinks this should take. If a million die, then fast-track it?


2 posted on 08/07/2014 9:01:54 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama hates black people.


3 posted on 08/07/2014 9:02:02 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama’s new power is to keep this drug ... for the EXEMPT.

The EXEMPT who are not under Laws they make for others.
The EXEMPT who are not under DeathCARE and its new taxes.
The EXEMPT who are a special class of Americans,
above all others (with their families and staff, of course).


4 posted on 08/07/2014 9:02:09 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Enterprise

Must be his white half speaking.


5 posted on 08/07/2014 9:02:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

We get 10% of our oil from Nigeria I read somewhere.

If things get out of hand in Lagos I’d expect someone to remind Obama of that.


6 posted on 08/07/2014 9:02:57 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: SeekAndFind

They don’t serve his agenda and cannot vote for dims. He doesn’t care.


7 posted on 08/07/2014 9:04:41 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama Inspects first batch of ebola drug with Kim the Fat Boy!


8 posted on 08/07/2014 9:05:57 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Most rational people, when faced with the grim prospect of having contracted a nearly always fatal disease and being offered an experimental treatment with the explanation of, "This may or may not help, but even if it does not cure YOU, we will learn more to help others" will certainly choose taking the risk of accepting the unknown treatment.
9 posted on 08/07/2014 9:06:00 AM PDT by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Paging Sting: please pick up the issue-awareness concert phone... please pick up the issue-awareness concert phone.


10 posted on 08/07/2014 9:06:02 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: AD from SpringBay

Bono too.


11 posted on 08/07/2014 9:06:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

For those that don’t already know, that experimental drug was developed from a GMO Tobacco plant being cultivated in my own backyard.

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/08/04/3365612/drug-given-to-american-ebola-victims.html

Have a cigar.


12 posted on 08/07/2014 9:07:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Maybe I need to change my name to Kentucky Leaf.


13 posted on 08/07/2014 9:07:49 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Rebel_Ace

RE: Most rational people,

Alas, if Obama were only rational. He’s proven time and again that he’s not!


14 posted on 08/07/2014 9:08:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: cuban leaf
Maybe we should start making Tomacco...


15 posted on 08/07/2014 9:08:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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16 posted on 08/07/2014 9:11:00 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

The sociopath speaks. African deaths don’t touch him. Doesn’t matter if they are mere children or if the death is painful. Ditto any other deaths that don’t touch him directly. He is without empathy. He thinks only of himself. If the case were made to him that he could be seen as a hero, & this would be a critical part of his legacy, he might allow it. But only because he saw self-benefit. Other than that, he is content to play ‘god’ & allow people he has no personal feeling for to die like plague rats.


17 posted on 08/07/2014 9:11:07 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: SeekAndFind

August, 2013, U.S. News and World Report

“Ebola Treatment May Be On the Horizon”

“”U.S. Army medical researchers may have found an emergency treatment for the deadly Ebola virus, which is welcome news to biodefense researchers studying ways in which such hemorrhagic fever viruses jump from non-primate species to human beings and how to treat them.

Using antibodies derived from specially engineered tobacco plants, Army medical researchers were able to develop a treatment that provided complete protection for monkeys shortly after they were exposed to Ebola. But, more importantly and promising, the treatment helped even after Ebola symptoms had developed, according to the study in Science Translational Medicine.””


18 posted on 08/07/2014 9:13:58 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Fantasywriter

Don’t you think it might be a little early in this outbreak to be getting rid of our experimental Ebola medicine by sending it to Africa?


19 posted on 08/07/2014 9:16:11 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: SeekAndFind
It's a hand crafted lab curiosity. Fragments of Ebola virus are given to mice. Three different extracts are prepared from the mouse antibodies, then they mouse antibodies a "humanized" by attaching some human derived antibody fragments so they can function in a human immune system. It's a lengthy process with small quantities produced. Trying to characterize this boutique effort as "racist" because it can't scale overnight is just ignorant.
20 posted on 08/07/2014 9:18:29 AM PDT by Myrddin
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