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Posted on 10/03/2014 4:33:05 AM PDT by blam
Philip Sherwell
October 3, 2014
The US government is scrambling to start production of the experimental Ebola drug that is viewed as the most promising medical treatment in the fight against the virus.
The ZMapp serum was used to treat two American missionaries who recovered from Ebola, but is not available for the Dallas man currently fighting the disease as the limited supplies made for clinical trials ran out in August.
Federal officials and two of the world’s largest charities are in advanced talks with pharmaceutical companies to launch accelerated production from genetically-engineered tobacco plants and animal cells.
But even as officials struggle to play catch-up with the epidemic, it has also emerged that ZMapp's development was held up for years by funding delays from a Pentagon programme aimed at countering biological threats.
And scientists acknowledge that despite the new efforts, they may not be able to produce more than a few hundred treatment courses by early next spring. That will be far behind the international demand and will confront officials with life-and-death challenges of rationing and priorities.
“The biology just doesn’t allow you to do it tomorrow,” Alan Magill, a programme director at the Gates Foundation which is helping to organise ZMapp development, told The New York Times .
Three vaccines and up to 10 medications are in various stages of development, according to health officials, with ZMapp the most promising so far.
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Here’s a thought: Let the private sector do it. We would have had a cure already.
Food and Drug Administration would make sure you made the product safe so that it would not kill anyone.
“Here’s a thought: Let the private sector do it. We would have had a cure already.”
With ZMapp, it appears we have the cure. The problem is that it is not possible to make it immediately due to the constraints of biology. Private funding has stepped in to bypass government inertia & ineptitude.
Yesterday Glenn Beck told of talking with Franklin Graham who described the administration of ZMapp to the Samaritan’s Purse doctor infected with Ebola.
The doctor was about to die and the ZMapp & CDC lawyers were all saying, “You cannot give him the drug, it has not passed clinical trials and been ruled safe for humans”. The people attending the sick doctor said, “He will be dead anyway in a few hours, we’re giving him the treatment!”
The treatment consisted of three bags of IV fluid containing ZMapp. At the start of the treatment he was nearly dead. By the time the third bag had finished flowing into the patient’s vein, he sat up and said, “I need to use the restroom.”
.gov NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF THIS!!!
They already screwed the pooch on the dining room table in front of everybody by NOT closing down the Borders and incoming travel.
F’ing Dipsticks!
Wow.
Google “Ebola vaccination owned by Bill Gates” and tons of hits come up. Take 6 minutes and listen to this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ORKDW8Svbw
Yes, in the interview that I saw, Dr. Brantly mentioned how quickly the rash started to disappear. I expect that the treatment will be given to the medical people who are treating Ebola patients, rich people, and those with powerful connections.
Yeah, I had been thinking about the logistics of this myself. We need to get on our knees and pray. The Leftists’ Obama prayer rugs don’t seem to be worth anything.
ohhh.....but it is made from tobacco.
Thanks to your harassment of that industry all the tobacco farmers are now growing arugula.
Thanks again, Libs!
I’ve been suspecting for a long time that this was being orchestrated, part of Agenda 21. But I didn’t realize how brazen their ‘snafoo’ would be. The slipshod way they handled this [regarding flights and medical] is BEYOND stupid — it’s misanthropic, literally.
I live near tobacco farms, worked in one for one season as a teen, and know a few things about it. [Would be even better if an actual grower offers input.] The plant is normally harvested around this time — once a year. And if it takes until spring, then tobacco itself is not the worst bottleneck.
We need to consider hothouses to grow it year-round. Surely the conditions can be simulated and even be improved on.
[non-tobacco thoughts]
“ZMapp’s development was held up for years by funding delays from a Pentagon programme aimed at countering biological threats.”
Obama’s priorities in budgeting are clearly warped. He wants abortion survivers ‘aborted’. Well, apparently it goes further than that. If the republicans were blocking ZMapp [which I seriously doubt], why didn’t Obama scorch them with a speech about this in particular? Drudge would have backed him up.
Tobacco used to be cut back by the Agriculture Department. But near the end of the Bush administration, they allowed farmers to grow more. We have really nice harvests this year in south Virginia. Best I’ve seen in some time. I don’t know about the conditions in Kentucky though.
Worse than stupid, wouldn’t you say? Orchestrated.
I grew up around tobacco farms, my grandparents were tobacco farmers. Tobacco “beds” are started from seed in cold weather, either in a greenhouse or under an anchored, clear plastic sheet to shelter them from cold and frost. Tobacco can be grown in a greenhouse out of season. It’s a fast-growing plant.
Orchestrated that invokes some sort of Class and they don't have that!
Sarcasm, right?
Sarcasm, yes in so far as the underlying claim of Bush’s fault goes.
100%... simply another RAT $$$$$ give away
A French nurse infected by ebola is being treated with Avigan and it appears to be working. Avigan is produced by a Fujifilm-owned company in Japan. The original intended use was for treatment of influenza.
Looks like some of the current anti-virus medicines offer some relief and possible cure.
I read that one doctor in Africa is having success with AIDS medicine.
So....there's hope.
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