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johno wrote:Someone explain the risk/benefit ratio for deliberately importing the disease.
It's already been brought here to study.

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Let's send Timmah to investigate this important issue.
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And you wonder why cyclones are smashing into Hawaii.
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seeahill wrote:And you wonder why cyclones are smashing into Hawaii.
Not really...

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Fat Cat wrote:
seeahill wrote:And you wonder why cyclones are smashing into Hawaii.
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It will hang around like your mother's Valtrex.
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Smile, though your world is world is breaking
That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
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johno wrote:Someone explain the risk/benefit ratio for deliberately importing the disease.
I see it as 313,000,000 to 2.
That some other diseased person might sneak in is a red herring. We should strive to exclude him too.

If bringing in infected patients is such a medical research boon, why wait for Americans to get sick?
Testing in a controlled environment is required for FDA approval.
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Two American aid workers who contracted Ebola in West Africa have been released from the hospital, and officials say they can return to their daily lives without fear of spreading the virus.

Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol have both been released from Emory University Hospital, where they had been in isolation since the beginning of August. Brantly was released Thursday, and officials said they discharged Writebol earlier in the week.

Brantly and Writebol were the first two Ebola victims to enter the U.S., and some pundits feared that allowing them back into the country would put Americans at risk for an outbreak. But hospital officials said Brantly and Writebol tested negative for Ebola and pose no risk to others.

"The medical staff here at Emory is confident that the discharge ... poses no public health threat," said Bruce Ribner, the director of the infectious diseases unit at Emory. "It was the right decision to bring these patients back to Emory for their treatment."

The Ebola outbreak that sickened Brantly and Writebol is the worst on record. More than 1,300 people have died so far in West Africa—between 50 and 60 percent of all cases. Past outbreaks have killed as many as 90 percent of infected patients.

There is no cure for Ebola, and health officials aren't entirely sure what treatment or combination of treatments worked for the American patients. They received an experimental drug known as ZMapp, but because the drug has not been tested in humans, there are no guarantees it was responsible for their recovery.

ZMapp might have made the difference; or supporting treatments, including massive infusions of fluids, might have done the job on their own.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-c ... w-20140821
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Turdacious wrote:
ZMapp might have made the difference; or supporting treatments, including massive infusions of fluids, might have done the job on their own.
Pretty sure any/all of that shit could have been administered in Africa.
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johno wrote:
Turdacious wrote:
ZMapp might have made the difference; or supporting treatments, including massive infusions of fluids, might have done the job on their own.
Pretty sure any/all of that shit could have been administered in Africa.
Third world hospitals are, by definition, not hygenic controlled environments. Ours are.
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Eight bodies, including those of three journalists, were found after an attack on a team trying to educate locals on the risks of the Ebola virus in a remote area of southeastern Guinea, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

"The eight bodies were found in the village latrine. Three of them had their throats slit," Damantang Albert Camara told Reuters by telephone in Conakry.

However, Guinea's Prime Minister Mohamed Saïd Fofana, speaking in a television message that had been recorded earlier, said 7 bodies of 9 missing people had been found.
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