Ebola in the news again?

[BabblingBrooke]

Wonder who's wagging the dog this time? I feel for any persons affected, but the news coverage last time was highly suspect. It was everywhere and sensationalized and then the coverage poofed overnight, just as an election concluded.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/08/birmingham_firefighters_quaran.html

 

[hashtag45]

I have ebola. Wanna pm?

 

[oggbashan]

Ebola is indeed in the news because it seems that an effective vaccine has been created to treat those in close contact with an infected person.

 

[Eyereadtoo]

Wonder who's wagging the dog this time? I feel for any persons affected, but the news coverage last time was highly suspect. It was everywhere and sensationalized and then the coverage poofed overnight, just as an election concluded.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/08/birmingham_firefighters_quaran.html

My question is why would someone from Indian Springs, Nebraska be all up on al.com? Huh? Huh?

Why are you spying on us down here?

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Wonder who's wagging the dog this time? I feel for any persons affected, but the news coverage last time was highly suspect. It was everywhere and sensationalized and then the coverage poofed overnight, just as an election concluded.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/08/birmingham_firefighters_quaran.html

The previous Ebola outbreak was "sensationalized" because several health care workers contracted the disease or had compromised physical contact with infected persons. That was significant in itself and threatened to disrupt how the disease might be treated in the future. Fortunately, however, those same workers were treated with a new experimental drug which cured them in a matter of weeks.

That's news, and pretty sensational news at that.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

The previous Ebola outbreak was "sensationalized" because several health care workers contracted the disease or had compromised physical contact with infected persons. That was significant in itself and threatened to disrupt how the disease might be treated in the future. Fortunately, however, those same workers were treated with a new experimental drug which cured them in a matter of weeks.

That's news, and pretty sensational news at that.

I absolutely agree that it's newsworthy. The level of coverage rivaled what we normally see for Kardashian news (this is a condemnation of such coverage). The coverage screeched to a halt within one day of an election, from what I observed. That's interesting to say the least.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

My question is why would someone from Indian Springs, Nebraska be all up on al.com? Huh? Huh?

Why are you spying on us down here?

My "location" is a setting from an older movie I love.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

My "location" is a setting from an older movie I love.

Experts? If so your taste in movies sucks!!!!!

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Experts? If so your taste in movies sucks!!!!!

Your taste in movies apparently sucks!

 

[Disgustipated]

Your taste in movies apparently sucks!

So does his tastes in fathers and health insurance for his children,

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

So does his tastes in fathers and health insurance for his children,

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sees penises everywhere.

 

[Eyereadtoo]

My "location" is a setting from an older movie I love.

You didn't answer my question Brooke. And oh wow, another teacher arrested for sex with a student; I swear Alabama leads the world in that.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Fortunately, however, those same workers were treated with a new experimental drug which cured them in a matter of weeks.

Please tell me you don't believe that they just discovered/created that drug at the right moment.

Because I got this great bridge in Brooklyn that's up for sale...

 

[oggbashan]

Please tell me you don't believe that they just discovered/created that drug at the right moment.

Because I got this great bridge in Brooklyn that's up for sale...

Sorry. We Brits have the monopoly for selling redundant bridges. My town bought stonework for our sea defences that were parts of the earlier London Bridge that was replaced by the bridge sold to Lake Havasu City.

http://www.campbellcovervresort.com/slideshows/London%20Bridge/London-Bridge-Lake-Havasu.jpg

 

[Yardley]

Sorry. We Brits have the monopoly for selling redundant bridges. My town bought stonework for our sea defences that were parts of the earlier London Bridge that was replaced by the bridge sold to Lake Havasu City.

http://www.campbellcovervresort.com/slideshows/London%20Bridge/London-Bridge-Lake-Havasu.jpg

Well, it was always falling down...

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Please tell me you don't believe that they just discovered/created that drug at the right moment.

Because I got this great bridge in Brooklyn that's up for sale...

Well, yes and no. The drug ZMapp which was authorized by the FDA to be given on an emergency basis to two American medical missionaries in the summer of 2014, had been "in development" since 2005 by a company that had only been founded two years previously. According to this September, 2014 BloombergBusiness article (http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-09-24/ebola-drug-zmapps-development-delayed-by-pentagon-agency), as of August 2014, that company, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, had only nine employees and no external investors. Until 2011, its entire funding had been through small grants of a little over $1 million per year through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) over the past decade. In terms of pharmaceutical development, that's hardly any development at all. But here is a timeline of the drug's "progress:"

http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-09-24/EBOLAgraphic2_REV3.jpg

The FDA's decision to allow administration of the drug which had never undergone human clinical trials to the two white American aid workers while hundreds of Africans lay dying was understandably not without controversy.

But if you believe that controversy includes a U. S. government conspiracy to withhold a known effective treatment for Ebola from the international community, then you've got one hell of a case to try to prove. Be my guest!

ZMapp was NOT known to be effective in humans at the time FDA authorized its limited emergency use.

There is no ready supply of the drug in existence because it has never been in production.

It has never been in production because it has not completed any human clinical trials.

If you would like to join the critical chorus of government inefficiency which the Bloomberg article documents, then, by all means, go right ahead.

But that is a much different story than your cynical response seems to imply.