Obama Says It’s ‘Premature’ to Fast-Track Promising Ebola Drug, Share with Africa

Pajamas Media ^ | 08/07/2014 | Bridget Johnson

[coloradan]

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

[Enterprise]

Obama hates black people.

[Diogenesis]

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).

[dfwgator]

Must be his white half speaking.

[Black Agnes]

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.

[Resolute Conservative]

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

[MeshugeMikey]

Obama Inspects first batch of ebola drug with Kim the Fat Boy!

[Rebel_Ace]

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.

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[dfwgator]

Bono too.

[cuban leaf]

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.

[cuban leaf]

Maybe I need to change my name to Kentucky Leaf.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Most rational people,

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

[dfwgator]

Maybe we should start making Tomacco...

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[Fantasywriter]

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.

[ansel12]

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.””

[ansel12]

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?

[Myrddin]

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.