Posted on 07/02/2014 6:30:00 PM PDT by dynachrome
West African states lack the resources to battle the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big obstacle to halting its spread, ministers said on Wednesday.
The outbreak has killed 467 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, making it the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). snipJeremy Farrar, a professor of tropical medicine and director of The Wellcome Trust, an influential global health charity, said people at high risk should also be offered experimental medicines, despite the drugs not having been fully tested.
"We have more than 450 deaths so far, and not a single individual has been offered anything beyond tepid sponging and 'we'll bury you nicely'," Farrar told Reuters in an interview. "It's just unacceptable."
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Bring out yer ebola dead ping.
I see no contradiction.
What I find bizarre is that we withhold medicine from dying people because -- "Who knows? It might make them sick!"
Is this something we can blame on George W. Bush
Hope they are not loading the bodies onto MAL 370....
Hmm, did they let the virus loose in order for the US to write them a check?
One positive note even amongst something so tragic.
Obama couldn’t arrange to have them placed on top of railway cars and offloaded on to our side of the border.
nukem from orbit
Oh, my. Where did you say you got your shot for that?
I firmly agree with you and Farrar. Holding these drugs back is cruel and show an incredible level of unnecessary protections for the drug industry. If it’s not going to work, how better to find out.
Yes I remember that now.
Perhaps a Malthusian wringer.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Until you can guarantee immunity from liability, I do not blame the pharmas one iota!
If the airports in these countries are still open, THEY’RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT!
LOL, caught me...
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