Ebola

[basic sole]

Fear, your beliefs and being uneducated about certain things can make you do some stuff.

 

[nazdrowie]

Liberia: Doctor given experimental Ebola drug dies

Aug. 25, 2014 8:25 AM ET
 

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH, Associated Press

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A Liberian doctor who was among three Africans to receive an experimental Ebola drug has died, the country's information minister said Monday.

Dr. Abraham Borbor, the deputy chief medical doctor at the country's largest hospital, had been among three Liberians, and the first Africans, who received the drug, ZMapp. Two Americans received the untested drug and survived. A Spaniard infected with Ebola received the treatment but died. There was no update given on the two other Liberians who took doses of the drug.

Borbor "was showing signs of improvement but yesterday he took a turn for the worse," Information Minister Lewis Brown told The Associated Press. It wasn't clear if he died late Sunday or on Monday.

Ebola has killed more than 1,400 people across West Africa. There is no proven vaccine or cure for the disease that can cause a grisly death with bleeding from the eyes, mouth and ears.

The virus can only be transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of the sick or from touching victims' bodies, leaving doctors and other health care workers most vulnerable to contracting it.

Only five people in the world are known to have received ZMapp. The small supply is now said to be exhausted, and it is expected to be months before more can be produced by its U.S. maker.

Health experts caution that the drug had never been tested in humans before and it was unclear whether it works. They note there is a huge gap between the treatment the two Americans got at an Atlanta hospital, where five infectious disease experts and 21 nurses provided rigorous care, and West Africa, where even such basics as sterile fluids can be in short supply.

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae...-25-Ebola/id-ef2e59630c674d50b0f0e23b1ec0e45a

 

[trueprada]

2 more medical workers given experimental drug survive Ebola.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/30/world/africa/ebola-west-africa/index.html

 

[Teknoman]

Not going to lie. I rather eat bush meat than be hungry. Malnutrition will have you dying for a cold.

 

[trueprada]

U.S. Doctor cured of Ebola: "I felt like I'd die

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...273617131.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_PHBrand

 

[trueprada]

 

[dmbrhs]

Imagine being the guy among your circle of friends who survived Ebola. I'd never stop bringing that up in conversations.

 

[AZwildcats]

Imagine being the guy among your circle of friends who survived Ebola. I'd never stop bringing that up in conversations.

I'd be depressed all my friends were dead

 

[Nouss]

Imagine being the guy among your circle of friends who survived Ebola. I'd never stop bringing that up in conversations.

WTH? Lame *** dude.

 

[dmbrhs]

I'd be depressed all my friends were dead

*Whoosh*

 

[antbanks81]

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[dmbrhs]

Well, maybe when folks over there start believing in Western medicine then we'll start helping them more. Until that time comes, they can keep breaking out of hospitals and consulting their local witch doctor.

 

[AZwildcats]

^^^

 

[trueprada]

[h1]Two Women Receive Experimental Ebola Vaccine in Fast-Tracked Trial[/h1]
By Sydney Lupkin  @slupkin

The NIH Ebola vaccine study kicked off this week with administration of the first two doses to study participants.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/women-...-vaccine-fast-tracked-trial/story?id=25236608

 

[trueprada]

Obama to pledge at CDC 3,000 military personnel to fight Ebola

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...-cdc-3-000-military-personnel-to.html?ana=twt

 

[mr marcus]

Well, maybe when folks over there start believing in Western medicine then we'll start helping them more. Until that time comes, they can keep breaking out of hospitals and consulting their local witch doctor.

Shut up you devil

 

[trueprada]

 

[dmbrhs]

Shut up you devil

You're right. It's cultural thing and we can't judge.

 

[debso]

without reading the article...how do military troops fight a disease? does it mean that they will be security for the doctors/nurses over there..?

 

[Humbled]

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[trueprada]

Liberia doctor treating patients with HIV drugs claims 13 out of 15 survived 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ugs-claims-13-out-of-15-survived-9759642.html

 

[debso]

so...first case in the U.S...

 

[yeah]

so...first case in the U.S...

Theres been two incidents in the US now: the first being Atlanta, where doctors in Africa were airlifted back to the states and taken to Emory Hospital.

The second being a SUSPECTED case in Dallas. It has NOT been confirmed yet. The person hospitalized, a doctor, was said to have been helping treat people in Sierra Leone.

 

[debso]

watch tv. its confirmed. and we already knew about the doctors in africa that got it and were flown back here...this is a "civilian" that flew to liberia, got infected there, flew back here and got sick a few days later. again, the cdc had a press conference and confirmed the positive test.

 

[ecruteakcityboy]

Just when the Cowboys started doing good.