Even worse, smallpox is a virus. They claim they keep the last remnants to study their mechanisms and whatnot, but I’ve always felt the reasons are far more sinister.
This is the same country that intentionally infected minorities for decades and then lied about it.
Do you have a source for this intentional infection of minorities? I’ve never heard of it and I also don’t doubt it could happen given the history.
The very same labs that keep the worst ailments to have ever affected humanity are the sames ones that create biological WMDs in the long run.
When will the bullshit end?
The Ebola outbreak’s real cause: Letting industry drive the research agenda - http://www.vox.com/2014/8/4/5963751/the-real-cause-of-the-ebola-outbreak-its-not-what-you-think
*“The cause of literally any persistent or reoccurring large-scale issue on Earth: Letting industry drive the research agenda.”
Fixed.
While I agree that research expenditures are often misplaced, I also think that the Vox article is slightly sensationalist, or at least outdated. They cite the FDA’s slowing down of the development of one novel ebola treatment (which was done because the company manufacturing the treatment had not adequately described the mode of action to the FDA, making it difficult to safely dose it), as grounds to claim that ebola only pulls research money for its potential in bioweapons (the creation and use of which has been banned in developed nations, aside from Russia, since the 1970s). While it’s accurate that less money also goes into ebola research than many other health issues, there’s good reason for that. There are not that many class 4 biosafety facilities to handle ebola around the world (I think the US only has maybe 15 of them), which means you have less labs and less people equipped to safely work on this type of disease. That doesn’t mean that the quality of research is necessarily poorer, though the quantity of studies is much lower. Again, this is more likely a product of safety issues rather than pharmaceutical corps actually thinking that baldness is a more serious concern.
Nevertheless, it seems that there’s been some success with the use of an antibody cocktail developed by another bio-pharmaceutical company. http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/bio-high-tech-treatment-for-ebola-may-have-saved-two-us-citizens/
No guarantees at all that those people will survive, especially since they’ve been infected for awhile, but if they do it could mean a big step in being able to treat the disease. The biggest caveat being that the antibodies are presently capable of being mass produced in the US, and we would need to ship them on-ice to wherever they needed to go, which makes the whole operation difficult to manage on a large scale. Even having a small amount of the treatment could still save a lot of lives if just by limiting the spread though.
This “bullshit” will end when there is no more wars on Earth; when there’s peace…
And the only proven way to do that is to stop that sort of thing at the root.
I won’t rant on this like I liable to on occasion, because you lot know how I feel on these debacles by now.
I’ll just say some people just aren’t worth the risk of allowing to live, and bow out from anything further than that.
Does it not drive anyone else nuts that ebola patients are being flown*** INTO*** the United States for care? It’s fucking insanity.
Insanity or more population control. Fucking cripes. -_-
~K.
Easy there, Chicken Little Alex Jones.
Burn the bodies please.
~K.
Walking Dead season 1 flashbacks…
Seriously, though…why not fly the drugs to them rather than bring them here? Not saying that they’re trying to recreate Walking Dead’s first comic arc and tv season*, but the coincidence is funny (as in “lol”, not “wait, what the-”).
*Setting: Atlanta, Georgia
Ebola is NOT a highly contagious disease. It is only communicated by direct physical contact with body fluids.
An Ebola outbreak in the US would NOT be as devastating as one in Africa. This is due to the level of medical care available in the country and access to it. You could basically walk into a hospital and be treated without incident. In fact, that exactly what happened to the first patient who was brought to Atlanta to be treated. He walked in on his own and was admitted to a secure ward.
You don’t have to be all creeped out by it just because it’s such a deadly disease. Believe me, Influenza is far worse than Ebola and poses a much larger threat, should it ever increase in aggressiveness. Flu and the common cold is much more communicable and can be just as deadly to some people (small children, elderly, immuno-suppressed individuals). AIDS is a bigger concern because it displays no symptoms for a long period of time.
Do’t freak out, ya’ll.
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dunno how i feel about that. public restrooms could be a threat as could coming into contact with said bodily fluids via sneeze or cough. and its almost cold and flu season.
i’m picturing riding the train during rush hour…
ppl are (no shots at you manx i mean ppl in general, including friends) talking about ppl like me being concerned about it like its nothing. like ppl don’t regularly come into contact with bodily fluids via sneezing and coughing, sweat, etc.
like ppl don’t spray it instead of say it.
like ppl cover their mouths when they cough and like ppl sneeze into their arm when they don’t. like we would initially be able to tell who has ebola and who has the flu.
like even if you could just walk into a hospital to be treated you’re going to easily walk out with a prescription.
like they didn’t have a SPECIALIZED set up, one of only four in the country for this ONE person.
like that “secret serum” is massed produced when its not.
just saying…
think about daycares and how small children are. think about riding the train or the bus and how nasty ppl can be. especially during the winter.
Im thought all the Atlanta patients are volunteers from Africa. the dude in NYC walked into Mt. Sinai and was in quarantine 7 minutes later. They are still waiting for his tests to see if it is actually ebola. I think three other patients across the country showed symptoms but none of em had it
Shut up Manx! You’re ruining our Resident Evil fantasy here! I wanna shotgun Las Plagas and J’avos. I want to Jaguar Kick and Rhino Charge people.
Marn dont even got ebola. I thought he had Black Death?
I’m just here to voice my approval of BEWD’s av.