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My Pet Goat

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11. Thanks, what is your view on the following information...

Reply to Avalux (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 02:09 PM

Oct 2014

"The drug has been in development for “years” and has been used on 900 patients to date, according to the press release. It was being tested in large-scale human trials for the treatment of cytomegalovirus and adenovirus infections, and had received FDA's “fast track” designation for CMV, adenovirus and smallpox when FDA approval came for use of the drug on Ebola patients."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/experimental-drug-dallas-ebola-thomas-eric-duncan_n_5941104.html

Do you think the large-scale trials increases the chances the drug is available right now in somewhere near a thousand-dose quantity?

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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