Posted on 10/06/2014 11:08:08 AM PDT by palmer
Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who is fighting a severe Ebola infection in Dallas, is getting an experimental treatment, the hospital announced Monday.
The drug is an investigational medication, brincidofovir, for Ebola Virus Disease.
Chimerix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company today announced that brincidofovir has been provided for potential use in patients with Ebola Virus Disease. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at thescoopblog.dallasnews.com ...
I wonder if this is going to be a $100 drug like lamivudine or a $100,000 drug like some other specialized antivirals.
It’s a ‘new’ drug and probably still has 7 years left on patent.
So I’ll go with $100,000 per dose Alex.
Meanwhile, the Africans will just use lamivudine. Till WHO finds a way to shut down their shipments.
I guess if it was being developed to treat adenovirus infections it must be projected to be quite inexpensive.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
I stand corrected. Did more research. CDC is out of ZMapp. The manufacturer is trying to make more asap; but none available now. Unclear when. Only had a couple of doses. Not proven; but did seem to work with two early cases.
I thought this yard bird was dead. Treatments must really work well.
Thanks for the info. I didn’t read the article either, I only posted it.
With you 100%.
I thought he dead too. If this works, I will be amazed.
I would triple that number. A one-night stay is pretty darned expensive, not to mention the care this guy’s apparently getting. I thought he was dead.
With open borders and no restrictions on travel from these Ebola countries, expects thousands more of these cases...
Only a guess, but they may have been exposed to degraded fomites in the wild at some point and built some sort of resistance--if that would work.
There were dozens of Liberians on just one flight from Brussels to Newark (the puking guy flight). There are “dozens” who have failed the medical check in Monrovia. We are screwed. Personally I don’t feel like there is a big threat of breakout, but innocents will die and we will spend billions.
LOL.
Seems like a good theory to me. The science text say you either get rapidly worse (after onset of major symptoms) or rapidly recover. That’s why I believe Duncan is not going to make it even with this treatment.
What do you think the dollar amount is for his treatment so far?
$150,000 ? bet that’s not far off.”
I would expect that it is way, way, way more than that. You have to know that they are throwing the kitchen sink at him to keep him alive and stop the deterioration of his internal organs. Of course, like all other information coming out about this crisis, we will never truly know the truth.
We’ll see. This seems to be a hail mary since he was reportedly already on the ventilator.
The drugs seem to work best when given between days 1 and X of symptoms but after day X don’t make any difference.
I wonder if this hail mary is to try to stave off the inevitable misdiagnosis lawsuit from the family that we all know is coming.
Seems like it's about time to hear from the Liberian doctor again. Has he treated another set of 15 patients with lamivudine? What is the updated success rate? Are any of his associates experimenting with it as well?
I'm not sure whether Duncan was bleeding internally or not.
I reckon we'll find out...
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