Can a more instructive video be produced to demonstrate how these patients were cured? On first impressions of this story, I found the detail in this is a bit sketchy (in a good way) and essentially it needs to be geared towards understanding the catastrophic impact of this illness in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia (and I heard the Congo :L please use this thread to include more details!) Sifting through the rest of the article, That compound was MB-003 or ZMapp, a cocktail of antibodies that has proven to be the most effective treatment so far in fighting off the Ebola virus. In a study published last year, scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases reported that 43 percent of infected nonhuman primates recovered after receiving the treatment intravenously 104 to 120 hours after infection — after symptoms developed. 43% - not a number that instills confidence! What more research can go into this infectious disease with view to mitigating the risks associated with impact? Read more here: kentucky/2014/08/04/3365612/drug-given-to-american-ebola-victims.html?sp=%2F99%2F322%2F&ihp=1#storylink=cpy An interesting read asking the question why this serum wasnt used in any hospitals in the African states struggling heavily with it now: thedailybeast/articles/2014/08/08/why-the-white-americans-got-the-secret-ebola-serum.html Seemingly answered, Never mind that there seem to have been no more than eight doses of the serum in existence. Never mind that the white people in question—Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol—who received three of those doses before they were flown home to the U.S. got perilously ill in the first place because they risked their lives helping Ebola victims in Liberia who happened to be black. And never mind that Samaritan’s Purse would not have established the Ebola clinic in Monrovia and asked Brantly serve as medical director had it thought the life of a white American was worth more than the life of a black African. Why is this serum so rare?
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:11:51 +0000
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