So now that the U.S. have been pulled into the Ebola **** storm, anyone taking bets on how long before a cure appears
There is no cure that works for everyone though. what has been a successful cure for one person has failed in another. The world is at threat from ebola and every countries governments are more worried than what they are letting on for obvious reasons...
Typical anti-American claptrap from our resident lefty. You can bet that the experts in the States have known for some time that the West Africans would never get this under control so it was always a risk to all of us. Instead of being so cynical about a cure maybe you should hope that someone will have the temerity to ask the Liberians what the **** they've been doing with all the aid money they've been getting over the years. Instead of setting up a health service infratructure and god forbid looking after their own people I bet you a pound to a pinch of **** it's gone on buying weapons. Now we're all at risk as a result.
I realise that musty..... Liberia has an annual GDP of around $2.675 billion and is a major recipient of foreign aid. I've checked, and defence spending has increased by a factor of 3.5 in four years between 2008 and 2012. All the hallmarks of a country that's got its priorities very wrong imo. I'm not saying ebola wouldn't have happened anyway but the biggest problem in West Africa is a lack of health infrastructure, poverty, squalor and superstition. Instead of the Liberian government spending money on weapons maybe they should have prioritised looking after its own people instead by providing the basics in society.
.....however - there isn't a white American who has been infected yet is there ?...... just saying' like......
Relevance? FYI Obama is black. No need to look for reasons to be cynical that don't exist. Besides, the first victim was a white male who'd been working in West Africa. Maybe it's a racist conspiracy that he survived.
Because you're suggesting, Valley, (no, stating) that the Americans don't give a **** about a cure until Americans start dying. Bollocks. The first Amercian to catch the damn thing was working in West Africa helping the people there. Yes, Liberia has great infrastructure. Double . Hundreds of millions in foreign aid has gone where, exactly? Yet their defence budget has almost quadlupled 2008-12. I checked.
Favipiravir, brand-named Avigan which was developed for another 'RNA' type virus (Bird Flu) by Toyama Chemical, a subsidiary of Fujifilm, which has stock piles for 20,000 patients has been offered by the Japanese government to the World health Organisation to defeat the Ebola outbreak in Africa. While the drug was not developed for Ebola, it has been tested on mice succesfully, and was given to a French Nun. On 4 October 2014, it was reported that a French nun who contracted Ebola while volunteering in Liberia was cured with Favipiravir treatment. While Favipiravir was specifically developed for Bird Flu (influenza), the virus 'RNA' type is similar to Ebola which is also an 'RNA' infection. Also the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases will begin human safety tests this week on a GlaxoSmithKline vaccine in development for the treatment of Ebola. In parallel, a British-based consortium will test the vaccine in volunteers in the U.K. and Africa. Lets hope that now the west is waking up to the threat of Ebola that we can see the WHO get it's act together..............
I think the latest patient who died in the States was given experimental drugs but they failed. Not sure which ones though. I think it also depends how far down the line they are when the drugs are given.
