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My Pet Goat

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9. More on brincidofovir...

Reply to My Pet Goat (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 01:56 PM

Oct 2014

Testing on Ebola patients just approved.

"The company’s potent antiviral is being tested on patients who are ill with adenovirus and cytomegalovirus. It is also being studied as a potential antidote to a smallpox outbreak spread accidentally or deliberately by bioterrorists."

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/06/4212004/fda-gives-durham-drug-developer.html?#storylink=cpy

Seems like drug has been under development for quite some time...I just wish there was a way to rapidly ramp-up production.

Update: Interesting, this is the drug that was originally denied to Josh Hardy (who then recovered from a virus after getting approval):

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/06/health/ebola-drugs-in-the-works/

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Ebola patient receives experimental treatment in Dallas hospital [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2014 OP

So I guess he's not as dead as the Freepers and that Israeli newspaper said he was... Electric Monk Oct 2014 #1

Yup. Agschmid Oct 2014 #2

Good luck to him. uppityperson Oct 2014 #3

This is good news. logosoco Oct 2014 #4

I heard the family would decide to try something else. Avalux Oct 2014 #7

They talked about the possibility of a drug from a TBF Oct 2014 #5

Awful fancy treatment for someone turned away for being black and uninsured. nt Dreamer Tatum Oct 2014 #6

I wonder if this drug has better availability... My Pet Goat Oct 2014 #8

More on brincidofovir... My Pet Goat Oct 2014 #9

Brincidofovir is a ramped up version of cidofovir (Vistide), is currently in Phase III drug trials. Avalux Oct 2014 #10

Thanks, what is your view on the following information... My Pet Goat Oct 2014 #11

It depends on what the FDA allows Chimerex to do. Avalux Oct 2014 #12

kick (there's a dupe thread just posted) Electric Monk Oct 2014 #13