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Secret serum likely saved Ebola patients - CNN.com

Brantly asked that Writebol be given the first dose because he was younger and he thought he had a better chance of fighting it, and she agreed. However, as the first vial was still thawing, Brantly's condition took a sudden turn for the worse.
Brantly began to deteriorate and developed labored breathing. He told his doctors, "I am going to die," according to a source with firsthand knowledge of the situation.

Knowing his dose was still frozen, Brantly asked if he could have Writebol's now-thawed medication. It was brought to his room and administered through an IV. Within an hour of receiving the medication, Brantly's condition was nearly reversed. His breathing improved; the rash over his trunk faded away. One of his doctors described the events as "miraculous."

Hopefully, this is the cure, and there are no subsequent side effects.

Meanwhile, the world will claim the U.S. was just letting Africans die all the while. Just watch.
 
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enough said.
 
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Secret serum likely saved Ebola patients - CNN.com



Hopefully, this is the cure, and there are no subsequent side effects.

Meanwhile, the world will claim the U.S. was just letting Africans die all the while. Just watch.

**** the world, they're just jealous that their countries are inferior to the U.S in almost every way outside of maybe culture.

It's easy to be jealous of the strongest nation in the world.
 
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**** the world, they're just jealous that their countries are inferior to the U.S in almost every way outside of maybe culture.

It's easy to be jealous of the strongest nation in the world.

My guess is this medicine is very expensive to produce.
 
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Yea, but we got billions to flush down the drain.

Did you notice where my comment was pointed toward?
 
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Yes, but we can get Obama to bend the cost curve.

Just put the entire country of Liberia on Obamacare.
 
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Just put the entire country of Liberia on Obamacare.

They might get denied by the death panel though.
 
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Just put the entire country of Liberia on Obamacare.

Problem solved! They're all going to die anyway. It's just a matter of when. The mitigating factor might be whether or not the Liberians have sufficient capital to pay taxes for a while before they die. And a penalty for not paying them, if they don't have the money. Perfectly logical.
 
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**** the world, they're just jealous that their countries are inferior to the U.S in almost every way outside of maybe culture.

It's easy to be jealous of the strongest nation in the world.

Okaaaaaay...
 
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**** the world, they're just jealous that their countries are inferior to the U.S in almost every way outside of maybe culture.

It's easy to be jealous of the strongest nation in the world.

Huh... I thought our healthcare sucks and ranked 37th in the world....
 
Secret serum likely saved Ebola patients

A potentially encouraging development with respect to treating Ebola...

From CNN:

Three top secret, experimental vials stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment...

The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice's blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells.

Ebola drug likely saved American patients - CNN.com
 
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So does this mean we don't have to transport Ebola to North America?
 
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So does this mean we don't have to transport Ebola to North America?

Hopefully it means tjat when we do, fewer people will die from our self induced epidemic.
 
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The ODS is strong in this thread...
 
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Secret serum likely saved Ebola patients - CNN.com



Hopefully, this is the cure, and there are no subsequent side effects.

Meanwhile, the world will claim the U.S. was just letting Africans die all the while. Just watch.

It's not a "secret serum" - they figured out back in 1996, that some people survived Ebola, so they (the doctors) realized the survivors must have had some anti-body, so they started giving the sick blood transfusions Dom the survivors... That worked - that method had an 80% successes rate, however that still never changed the fact that the blood donars still had nasty shiznit like aids, hep b & c, however AIDS and Hep B&C are better than dying in a week or 10 days....

The real problem with Ebola presently is that it continues to mutate...
 
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Moderator's Warning:
Merging dupe thread.
 
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Moderator's Warning:
On a side note, the off-topic and trolling comments need to stop.
 
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From reading the OP, not exactly a SECRET serum. Just one that has not yet been thoroughly tested. Wouldn't this be a matter of applause, that perhaps we've discovered a cure/vaccine/antidote for a very deadly virus?
 
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From reading the OP, not exactly a SECRET serum. Just one that has not yet been thoroughly tested. Wouldn't this be a matter of applause, that perhaps we've discovered a cure/vaccine/antidote for a very deadly virus?
Sounds like it's basically antibodies from mice, refined/separated into some form.

That's not a drug, no matter what CNN called it.
The medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice's blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells.

This article appears to have more detail on the serum ZMapp Serum Used To Treat Ebola-Infected Americans - Business Insider

Edit: Additionally, that article appears to confirm my understanding of the virus - it requires close contact with an infected person to be transmitted.
 
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