The Ebola is nasty stuff for sure. Catch it and, after a short incubation period, your body explodes and leaks out every possible exit. Incurable. Glorious.
Nothing much happened with this for quite a while and there was a lot of thinking along the lines of, so, the darkies aren't worth saving, it's not economically-feasible to develop a remedy, ... spin through the whole litany on Big Pharma.
The expansion lately got people thinking that, damn, it could get to the United States. The first thought on increased efforts toward a cure are cynical in that, oh, now it matters, huh. However, that isn't fair. There is a product called ZMapp, a highly-experimental drug, that's being used now and that development had to have started long before the current hysteria or they would have nothing now. (AP: US gov't had role in Ebola drug given aid workers)
It's important, in my view, to commend the company that has been doing the development work, Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc of San Diego. It's all very well to slash Pfizer for going to Europe or whatever but Mapp appears to be fighting the good fight. The extent to which government dollars are involved will be a subsequent interest as keeping this constantly funded is much more important than sporadically funding this type of research and development whenever media hysteria drives it.
People are afraid of having patients in the country who are infected with Ebola. Think it through as where would you have these people be taken. There are other countries with sufficiently high-technology in medicine to be able to do research with relative safety but there are not so many. There ought to be considerably more fear if this research takes place in some backwoods facility where it really could get out.
The Ebola patients here are flown into the country on specially-equipped aircraft which presumably have some type of isolation unit(s) for transporting infectious patients. Maybe people think in Africa they just give them a Delta flying credit and tell them, hey, meet you in Atlanta but it's a wee bit more sophisticated than that.
The news in this is that there is still no cure but there is a treatment. Yesterday I wasn't even aware of a treatment. The biggest news of all for me is that this type of research does continue even when potential profits are minimal.
Whether the two kids (i.e. maybe in their twenties) will survive is unknown but they do so far. Sometimes people do survive the disease anyway. I hope they do and I'm glad they are where they can get the best help. The people who help them are as brave as they. At all times they know any mistake could mean their own deaths and they do it for humanity.
That's a salute.
Nothing much happened with this for quite a while and there was a lot of thinking along the lines of, so, the darkies aren't worth saving, it's not economically-feasible to develop a remedy, ... spin through the whole litany on Big Pharma.
The expansion lately got people thinking that, damn, it could get to the United States. The first thought on increased efforts toward a cure are cynical in that, oh, now it matters, huh. However, that isn't fair. There is a product called ZMapp, a highly-experimental drug, that's being used now and that development had to have started long before the current hysteria or they would have nothing now. (AP: US gov't had role in Ebola drug given aid workers)
It's important, in my view, to commend the company that has been doing the development work, Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc of San Diego. It's all very well to slash Pfizer for going to Europe or whatever but Mapp appears to be fighting the good fight. The extent to which government dollars are involved will be a subsequent interest as keeping this constantly funded is much more important than sporadically funding this type of research and development whenever media hysteria drives it.
People are afraid of having patients in the country who are infected with Ebola. Think it through as where would you have these people be taken. There are other countries with sufficiently high-technology in medicine to be able to do research with relative safety but there are not so many. There ought to be considerably more fear if this research takes place in some backwoods facility where it really could get out.
The Ebola patients here are flown into the country on specially-equipped aircraft which presumably have some type of isolation unit(s) for transporting infectious patients. Maybe people think in Africa they just give them a Delta flying credit and tell them, hey, meet you in Atlanta but it's a wee bit more sophisticated than that.
The news in this is that there is still no cure but there is a treatment. Yesterday I wasn't even aware of a treatment. The biggest news of all for me is that this type of research does continue even when potential profits are minimal.
Whether the two kids (i.e. maybe in their twenties) will survive is unknown but they do so far. Sometimes people do survive the disease anyway. I hope they do and I'm glad they are where they can get the best help. The people who help them are as brave as they. At all times they know any mistake could mean their own deaths and they do it for humanity.
That's a salute.
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