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magical thyme

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4. Some day, maybe. But not today or even real soon.

Reply to marble falls (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 20, 2014, 12:25 PM

Sep 2014

The vaccines and treatment are untested, and the more the virus mutates, the greater the chance that the vaccines and treatment will lose whatever effectivess they may have.

Right now, the only treatments are supportive. Providing plasma from recovered patients seems to be effective as well.

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Chasing a rolling snowball (this is actually perversely good news. The money people have noticed) [View all] magical thyme Sep 2014 OP

"The longer the world prevaricates, the harder and costlier it will be to contain this outbreak"... marble falls Sep 2014 #1

big Pharma isn't making any money off of this. The most promising vaccine magical thyme Sep 2014 #2

I quoted the article. And not a doubt in my mind, Big Pharma will benefit from Ebola. marble falls Sep 2014 #3

Some day, maybe. But not today or even real soon. magical thyme Sep 2014 #4

Soon. The West has finally taken notice. Big budgets - big profits. marble falls Sep 2014 #5

the big budgets are going to PPEs, care facilities, IV fluids, disinfectants, andmilitary personnel. magical thyme Sep 2014 #6

And so it begins: marble falls Sep 2014 #7