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Feds give emergency approval to new Ebola testing kit for Americans
The Washington Times ^ | December 24, 2014 | Kellan Howell

Posted on 12/25/2014 7:02:13 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Edited on 12/25/2014 11:00:00 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency approval for a new diagnostic kit to test blood for the deadly Ebola virus, even as doctors are reporting a survival rate in one hard-hit area that has climbed to about 70 percent.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: atlanta; dhs; ebola; ebolainamerica; ebolaoutbreak; fda; guinea; liberia; mortality; sierraleone; testingkit

1 posted on 12/25/2014 7:02:14 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: null and void; Kartographer

PING!


2 posted on 12/25/2014 7:02:34 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So.... which company makes this new test kit and how much did they donate to the DNC ?


3 posted on 12/25/2014 7:17:53 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

...a new diagnostic kit to test blood for the deadly Ebola virus....

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Uh-huh, and who is the crony of the Regime who will make big bucks on said kits? Follow the money.


4 posted on 12/25/2014 8:27:41 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Bigg Red

It is unfortunate that it has come to this. Everything that happens is immediately suspect, and for proven past events.


5 posted on 12/25/2014 8:31:23 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: UCANSEE2; Bigg Red
So.... which company makes this new test kit and how much did they donate to the DNC ?

Would you prefer that the usual FDA multi-decade process apply?

Just in case you have not noticed, Ebola is serious and many people will benefit from access to these test kits.

Cutting red tape used to be a conservative virtue, especially in times of crisis.

6 posted on 12/25/2014 8:56:24 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

More”Proof”of the way the seriousness of this Obola Virus thing has been”Underplayed”by the Obongo/Obola Media!!!!!


7 posted on 12/25/2014 9:32:27 AM PST by bandleader
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To: BwanaNdege

Your points are well-taken, and it brings me great sorrow to see the state of mistrust that has been brought to us by the behavior of the left. But that is where we are right now.


8 posted on 12/25/2014 10:41:57 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

You are correct on all counts.


9 posted on 12/25/2014 10:42:30 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Bigg Red

It might be even worse if a superfluously trustworthy Right managed to pull allegiance away from God.


10 posted on 12/25/2014 10:42:52 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Not quite sure what you mean, but my personal religious faith remains solid.


11 posted on 12/25/2014 10:48:28 AM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Bigg Red

Not a personal criticism, but an overall observation. Even the stoutest bulwark of the world has an achilles heel and clay feet, to shamelessly mix metaphors.

It’s also vain to talk about a “solid” faith because if it isn’t moving, it’s deteriorating. It can’t literally sit like a rock, and in that sense even a biblical metaphor has limits. What would you expect out of a metaphor.


12 posted on 12/25/2014 11:09:21 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: BwanaNdege

So, because Ebola is the ‘horror du jour’, the process goes out the window?

Is cancer any less serious? Would skipping directly to human trials/market possibly save SOME lives? How many drugs are out, in the world; for YEARS, if not decades, that the FDA claims ‘more testing’ is needed...How many dying would JUMP at the chance for ANY lifeline, but, because of the FDA, perish without the slimmest of chance?!

Abolishing uses to be the (C) answer. Now, it seems that the kinder, gentler Fascism is A.O.K. instead...Next I’ll be reading here will be some “(R)/(C)” rooting for the EPA; ‘they’d’ never lie to us either, eh?


13 posted on 12/25/2014 4:49:28 PM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

14 posted on 12/30/2014 10:34:42 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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