Posted on 10/08/2014 8:19:17 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
No article yet.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
>I knew he’d lost control when he built a fire on Main St and shot it full of holes.
Oh to be stuck inside of Dallas with the Ebola Blues again.
May God have mercy on his soul
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Chimerix’s Brincidofovir Given To Dallas, Nebraska Ebola Patients
Comment Now
Follow Comments
As Thomas Eric Duncan was “fighting for his life” over the weekend from an Ebola infection he contracted in Liberia, he was given an antiviral drug on Saturday that is best known for saving a little boy with cancer earlier this year.
We learned today that, Ashoka Mukpo, the freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola while on assignment with Dr. Nancy Snyderman at NBC News, will be treated with the same drug.
When it comes to Ebola drugs, we’ve heard primarily about ZMapp, Tekmira, and vaccines. How and why did this drug, brincidofovir, seem to suddenly emerge on the Ebola treatment scene?
On the hotseat over compassionate use
Brincidofovir, or CMX001, is a broad-spectrum antiviral drug in development by Chimerix, a 75-employee company on the outskirts of Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina. The drug is currently in Phase 3 trials for life-threatening adenovirus in children and adults who have compromised immune systems and for adults with cytomegalovirus infections acquired after hematopoietic stem cells transplants for cancer.
Brincidofovir was also the antiviral drug at the center of a highly-charged, compassionate use case earlier this year of a then-seven-year-old Virginia boy, Josh Hardy. The boy acquired an adenovirus infection after a bone marrow transplant at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis for a cancer he’d been battling since an infant.
Chimerix had previously been offering brincidofovir under compassionate use provisions – called extended access outside of a clinical trial – but discontinued the program to focus energy on getting the drug to market, an understandable consequence of the limited finances of a small company with no other products on the market.
Sad to hear. He was doomed.
Thanks. Hopefully this company will not be the second ebola fatality.... I hope they get the chance to get their drug to market.
Thank You
Listening to Dave Hodges this morning and he was saying that he has a contact in the Border Patrol. His contact told him there is a healthy contingent of West Africans they see coming over the border who work in the drug trades with the Sinaloa cartel.
Mr. Duncan was dead the day he boarded the flight in Monrovia. Extended direct exposure to the 19-year old late stage Ebola infected girl sealed his fate.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the 4 “relatives” who shared the apartment with Mr. Duncan. That will determine our capability to handle Ebola from initial infection, through incubation, into full blown Ebola.
I’ll bet that poster would go over well at the jobsite!
General: If Ebola Reaches Central America, 'There Will Be Mass Migration into the U.S.' Those looking for good news on the fight against Ebola will not find much encouragement from Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command.“By the end of the year, there’s supposed to be 1.4 million people infected with Ebola and 62 percent of them dying, according to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]..." This is particularly possible scenario if the disease gets to Haiti or Central America, he said. If the disease gets to countries like Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, it will cause a panic and people will flee the region, the general said. “If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.”http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/general-if-ebola-reaches-central-america-there-will-be-mass-migration-us_810793.html?nopager=1
Yes, it was. I will track it down since it was posted to FR. I found it incredible at the time. That will have to wait until evening, however.
the former soviets must pay well ... LOL
Might be so....But the drug didn’t suddenly ‘materialize’.... according to the FDA and the Hospital once the drug was ok’d Duncan was given it that day.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the family and or Duncan himself agreed to using whatever they had to treat this. But he was in rough shape before even admitted to the hospital....remember his niece mentioned his eyes were red and it’s then she called the ambulance....so he was already bleeding out.
Incompetence rules the planet.
I read that 90% will die without treatment and 70% will die with treatment.
:) But some of us will have eternal life.....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.