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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The drug is gone, used up.
“”The Ebola drug given to two Americans and a Spanish priest has been sent to treat infected doctors in two West African countries, and the supply of the medicine is now gone, its manufacturer said.””
What’s your point?
He followed your call to conscience, it is all used up now.
You & the other poster have LIED long enough about what I said. STOP IT. The slander is vomit-worthy. It is NOT worthy of this site. You need to get a life. Slandering me is not a life. It’s the kind of thing people do who are begging to be zotted. I.e.: they follow a poster around LYING about them until the situation becomes intolerable. So STOP IT. STOP IT NOW. Leave me alone, and STOP LYING ABOUT WHAT I SAID.
In case you missed it: STOP SLANDERING ME.
The next time you do it, I will take whatever steps necessary and possible to put an end to your stalking campaign. Okay? Got it?
I am SICK OF YOUR LIES.
PERIOD.
What are you raving about?
This is the only thread that we have had any interaction on, ever, it looks like, are you having an episode of some kind?
There is no need for you to lie and slander people, Obama did as you desired and now the drug is all gone.
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