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 ...
How about THIS for an “Experimantal” Treatment, a 30-06 bullet though the HEAD and body DUMPED into a lime coated PIT! Worthless BASTARD!
well I guess using this lying asshole as a guinea pig is ok
but i don’t want to spend any more on him
save it for Americans
LOL
+1
How about we try the “experimental treatment” of impeaching Obama, enforcing border LAWS, and banning all flights from West Africa?
I predict that if this works, Obola will go running around taking credit saying Obombacare saved this DA. Mark my words!
“How about THIS for an “Experimental” Treatment, a 30-06 bullet though the HEAD and body DUMPED into a lime coated PIT! “
Has that method received FDA approval yet?
Thank goodness !! /s
I heard his sister bitch’n about him not getting good treatment.
What do you think the dollar amount is for his treatment so far?
$150,000 ? bet that’s not far off.
Structure of this drug looks veeerrry familiar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brincidofovir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamivudine
Wonder what the long aliphatic tail does...
“Has that method received FDA approval yet?”
Only for people who donated to the ‘wrong’ political causes...
That’s likely per day. Not counting the cost of the equipment that may not be able to be sterilized (dialysis machine, respirator, etc)
You’re probably way under by an immense factor.
Great. Guy lies to get back here (assuming he is from here; still a little unclear on that), infects numerous people (after he had to know he was infected - hear the story in the taxi in Liberia?), and gets the ZMapp - special serum. (Not a cure; but worked so far on the two earlier infected Americans - although one is back in the hospital with a - hopefully unrelated - respiratory illness.)
Been asking for a week why no one was talking about ZMapp. All of a sudden, just yesterday (maybe Saturday) people started asking if Duncan was getting the “cure”. I wonder if the new case- the infected American journalist triggered the discussion. Hopefully, he will get it too.
Heard the CDC head talking this morning about ZMapp and how it could make the sickness worse. In Duncan’s defense, the guy is critical and dying. Don’t want to make it worse??
Still have yet to hear if it is being produced in mass quantities.
I have a sense there is a epic fight between CDC (who want to use ZMapp to make Obama look good) and the wonks at FDA who want to run a couple years of tests. Obviously, we peon citizens have no right to know. All is well.
As long as there is enough ZMapp for the infected Americans who don’t cheat to get back here, give it to him. We are not barbarians.
I agree. This Obama CF is going to cost billions if we are lucky. If not, cost won’t matter any more because we’ll be dead.
Friedan said we had no more experimental drugs, just this morning. By golly, they need to get that sucker outta that hospital. Did they give him Boehner’s ZMapp? Or did they need a reason to get him well quick?
Geesh
I will second what you just said. Probably, the guy never had Ebola. LOL
Who knows anymore?
Did you read the linked article at all?
There is no more zmapp.
He’s receiving an antiviral drug. That’s structurally related to the one being used by this Liberian doctor with amazing recovery rates:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/27/health/ebola-hiv-drug/
This is a ‘small molecule’ drug. Meaning it’s probably ‘pillable’ and doesn’t require the extensive cold chain for transport that zmapp and vaccines require. Cold chain transmission isn’t readily available in Africa, refrigerators need electricity and that’s ‘iffy’ over there. Pills are much more readily available and easier to handle there.
My guess is that none of these treatments are going to save the day. The virus grows in the cells that line the blood vessels and the cells that comprise the immune system. So A) there is a lot of virus spreading everywhere and B) the immune system is toast. I have no idea how people manage to fight it off.
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