Ebola Virus - should we be worried?

^^ what do you expect from a missionary that ships his whole family over to Liberia to do God's work? God saved his ass but not the 1200+ Africans that have died :rolleyes:

ZMapp isn't a cure. The Spanish priest who was given it died in Madrid. Also, this Brantly character was given a blood transfusion from a 14 year old boy who had survived Ebola. I'm not an immunologist, but that might have played some part in his recovery.

The important part to take away from all this though? God hates niggers obviously.
 


nickster said:
If you need any proof that religion is retarded I give you

Dr Kent Brantly beams with delight after beating Ebola with experimental serum | Mail Online

tl;dr Man has Ebola. Is dying. Is given experimental drug that cures him. Man believes that it was actually prayers that cured him (although the drug may have helped).



I don't even begin to fathom the stupidity of some people. Where the fuck is his massive gratitude to science and modern medicine? No it was really God that cured him (oh and in the meantime forsakes the thousands of black people who have died of Ebola?!?!)


On a positive note, it looks like we may have a cure :)


n.b. not fucking prayer
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wow, so the experimental ebola treatment actually worked? that's very good news for us :thumbsup:

as for religion....ugh, don't get me started.:disgust:.
 
It irks me so much that people have positive things happening to them in their life and they say I prayed for it. It's not like the family of a child with terminal cancer doesn't pray for their child to recover. But no, god prefers to give tommy a winning lottery ticket or helps/allows his football team to win the title or allows Jamal to win the X Factor.

Mysterious ways my ass.

Does none of this stuff even cross their minds?
 
yeah, looks like the experimental drug ain't even close to being called a cure yet.

U.S. aid workers who survived Ebola leave Atlanta hospital
Dr. Bruce Ribner, medical director of the infectious disease unit at Emory's hospital, credited aggressive supportive care and the fact that both Brantly and Writebol were healthy and well-nourished with helping them recover.

The pair received an experimental therapy called ZMapp, a cocktail of antibodies made by tiny California biotech Mapp Biopharmaceutical. Health experts cautioned against declaring the drug a medical breakthrough based on two patients.

"The honest answer is we have no idea," Ribner said, when asked if the experimental drugs helped the missionaries' survival. He said early studies in primates suggest the drug has few long-term side effects.

The scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the largest in history with 2,473 people infected and at least 1,350 dead, has prompted a scramble for experimental drugs, most of which have only been tested in monkeys and cell cultures.

Last week, the World Health Organization backed the use of untested drugs and vaccines, but the scarcity of supplies has raised questions about who gets the treatments.

ZMapp was also given to a third patient, a Spanish priest, who has now died from his infection, as well as two doctors in Liberia and a nurse. Sources in Liberia told the WHO that two of those patients have shown marked improvement following their treatment.

But about 50 percent of people survive Ebola anyway, even under poor medical conditions, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health, said on MSNBC on Thursday.

"I'd say we have a couple of people who've recovered, they've gotten excellent medical care and the specific therapy, ZMapp ... may have had a role in it but we don't know," Fauci said.
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