"Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola 390
mrspoonsi (2955715) writes with news that the two Americans infected with Ebola in Liberia and transported to Atlanta for treatment were given an experimental drug, and their conditions appear to be improving. From the article: While some people do fight off the disease on their own, in the case of the two Americans, an experimental serum may have saved their lives. As Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol waited in a Liberian hospital, someone from the National Institutes of Health reached out to Samaritan's Purse, one of the two North Carolina-based Christian relief groups the two were working with, and offered to have vials of an experimental drug called ZMapp sent to Liberia, according to CNN's unnamed source. Although the Food and Drug Administration does allow experimental drugs to occasionally be distributed in life-threatening circumstances without approval under the expanded access or "compassionate use" conditions. It's not yet clear whether that approval was granted in this case or not. ... Brantly, who had been sick for nine days already ... [received] the first dose ... within an hour, he was able to breathe better and a rash on his body started to fade. The next day he was able to shower without help before boarding the air ambulance that flew him to Atlanta.
When the patients awoke (Score:5, Funny)
Their lives were forever changed. One developed incredible muscles, which he used to fight crime. The other's brain was equally enhanced, but her turned to a life of crime.
media.. (Score:2, Funny)
secret serum? what is this, scooby doo?
Expert:Ebola Vaccine At Least 50 White People Away (Score:5, Funny)
Experts: Ebola Vaccine At Least 50 White People Away
http://www.theonion.com/articl... [theonion.com]
Re:Other uses for secret serum (Score:2, Funny)
I'd have thought your UID number too high to know about that one.
Hey! I thought exactly the same thing when I saw someone with a 5 digit UID quoting Shakespeare the other day!
Re:ROI for drug development (Score:1, Funny)
Isn't Mapp Biopharm a subsidiary of Umbrella Corp?