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The US Is Scrambling To Produce The Experimental Ebola Drug ZMapp
BI - The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-3-2014 | Philip Sherwell

Posted on 10/03/2014 4:33:05 AM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 10/03/2014 4:33:06 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Here’s a thought: Let the private sector do it. We would have had a cure already.


2 posted on 10/03/2014 4:36:39 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun
Here’s a thought: Let the private sector do it. We would have had a cure already.

Food and Drug Administration would make sure you made the product safe so that it would not kill anyone.

3 posted on 10/03/2014 4:49:19 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: goodwithagun

“Here’s a thought: Let the private sector do it. We would have had a cure already.”

With ZMapp, it appears we have the cure. The problem is that it is not possible to make it immediately due to the constraints of biology. Private funding has stepped in to bypass government inertia & ineptitude.

Yesterday Glenn Beck told of talking with Franklin Graham who described the administration of ZMapp to the Samaritan’s Purse doctor infected with Ebola.

The doctor was about to die and the ZMapp & CDC lawyers were all saying, “You cannot give him the drug, it has not passed clinical trials and been ruled safe for humans”. The people attending the sick doctor said, “He will be dead anyway in a few hours, we’re giving him the treatment!”

The treatment consisted of three bags of IV fluid containing ZMapp. At the start of the treatment he was nearly dead. By the time the third bag had finished flowing into the patient’s vein, he sat up and said, “I need to use the restroom.”


4 posted on 10/03/2014 4:49:52 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection " - Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation.)
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To: blam; SgtBob; Chode; B4Ranch; All

.gov NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF THIS!!!

They already screwed the pooch on the dining room table in front of everybody by NOT closing down the Borders and incoming travel.

F’ing Dipsticks!


5 posted on 10/03/2014 5:05:38 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: BwanaNdege

Wow.


6 posted on 10/03/2014 5:11:37 AM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: blam

Google “Ebola vaccination owned by Bill Gates” and tons of hits come up. Take 6 minutes and listen to this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ORKDW8Svbw


7 posted on 10/03/2014 5:28:49 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (In an Oligarchy, the serfs don't count.)
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To: BwanaNdege

Yes, in the interview that I saw, Dr. Brantly mentioned how quickly the rash started to disappear. I expect that the treatment will be given to the medical people who are treating Ebola patients, rich people, and those with powerful connections.


8 posted on 10/03/2014 5:42:25 AM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: blam

Yeah, I had been thinking about the logistics of this myself. We need to get on our knees and pray. The Leftists’ Obama prayer rugs don’t seem to be worth anything.


9 posted on 10/03/2014 5:46:46 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Powerless? Not with the Liberty Amendments)
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To: blam

ohhh.....but it is made from tobacco.

Thanks to your harassment of that industry all the tobacco farmers are now growing arugula.

Thanks again, Libs!


10 posted on 10/03/2014 5:52:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: petercooper

I’ve been suspecting for a long time that this was being orchestrated, part of Agenda 21. But I didn’t realize how brazen their ‘snafoo’ would be. The slipshod way they handled this [regarding flights and medical] is BEYOND stupid — it’s misanthropic, literally.

I live near tobacco farms, worked in one for one season as a teen, and know a few things about it. [Would be even better if an actual grower offers input.] The plant is normally harvested around this time — once a year. And if it takes until spring, then tobacco itself is not the worst bottleneck.

We need to consider hothouses to grow it year-round. Surely the conditions can be simulated and even be improved on.


[non-tobacco thoughts]

“ZMapp’s development was held up for years by funding delays from a Pentagon programme aimed at countering biological threats.”

Obama’s priorities in budgeting are clearly warped. He wants abortion survivers ‘aborted’. Well, apparently it goes further than that. If the republicans were blocking ZMapp [which I seriously doubt], why didn’t Obama scorch them with a speech about this in particular? Drudge would have backed him up.


11 posted on 10/03/2014 6:11:50 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Powerless? Not with the Liberty Amendments)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Tobacco used to be cut back by the Agriculture Department. But near the end of the Bush administration, they allowed farmers to grow more. We have really nice harvests this year in south Virginia. Best I’ve seen in some time. I don’t know about the conditions in Kentucky though.


12 posted on 10/03/2014 6:13:56 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Powerless? Not with the Liberty Amendments)
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To: mabarker1

Worse than stupid, wouldn’t you say? Orchestrated.


13 posted on 10/03/2014 6:15:28 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Powerless? Not with the Liberty Amendments)
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To: blam

I grew up around tobacco farms, my grandparents were tobacco farmers. Tobacco “beds” are started from seed in cold weather, either in a greenhouse or under an anchored, clear plastic sheet to shelter them from cold and frost. Tobacco can be grown in a greenhouse out of season. It’s a fast-growing plant.


14 posted on 10/03/2014 6:19:14 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
More like conniving scumbags

Orchestrated that invokes some sort of Class and they don't have that!

15 posted on 10/03/2014 7:47:54 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: Lion Den Dan

Sarcasm, right?


16 posted on 10/03/2014 7:48:44 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: goodwithagun

Sarcasm, yes in so far as the underlying claim of Bush’s fault goes.


17 posted on 10/03/2014 8:06:31 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: mabarker1
100%... simply another RAT $$$$$ give away
18 posted on 10/03/2014 2:56:33 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: blam

A French nurse infected by ebola is being treated with Avigan and it appears to be working. Avigan is produced by a Fujifilm-owned company in Japan. The original intended use was for treatment of influenza.


19 posted on 10/03/2014 3:04:34 PM PDT by stboz
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"The original intended use was for treatment of influenza."

Looks like some of the current anti-virus medicines offer some relief and possible cure.

I read that one doctor in Africa is having success with AIDS medicine.

So....there's hope.

20 posted on 10/03/2014 3:57:15 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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