1st Ebola patient diagnosed in the US has died

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Originally posted by: DonDiego

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Originally posted by: malibber2
I am sure there is a lot more than enough to treat two patients sitting around. It is just a case of who gets it has already been decided.

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DonDiego requests a reference on which malibber bases his certainty.

Until malibber reveals his source of Ebola cures "lying around", DonDiego offers an article from the
International Business Times discussing the status of the known treatments, . . . i. ZMapp in the USA at facilities in Kentucky and at Texas A&M, ii. TKM-Ebola from Canada, iii. JK-05, based on an earlier Fujifilm drug, being fast-tracked in China, and a vaccine undergoing trials in Canada.

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Originally posted by: DonDiego
2nd Health Care Worker Tests Positive for Ebola at Texas Hospital

Uh-oh.

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Originally posted by: alanleroyII
Why are trained professional heath care workers wearing protective gear catching Ebola while the people who were sharing a tiny apartment with him have not?

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Originally posted by: DonDiego

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Originally posted by: alanleroyII
Why are trained professional heath care workers wearing protective gear catching Ebola while the people who were sharing a tiny apartment with him have not?

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Perhaps the Ebola virus thrives in the environment of a modern hospital.
Or perhaps the environment in The Ivy Apartments was somehow toxic to the virus. F'rinstance, the transmission of the disease may be inhibited by the presence of tobacco smoke/residue; ZMapp is produced in tobacco plants.
Perhaps the apartment occupants were in a constant low-level state of alcoholic inebriation, which prohibited the virus thriving in their blood.

Clearly DonDiego doesn't know the answer. He's just brainstorming. But he might start maintaining a constant low-level state of beer-induced alcoholic inebriation, just in case he's guessed right. [As luck would have it, DonDiego just purchased a significant quantity of quality craft beers at the largest retail liquor/beer/party-supplies store in the world, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, . . . so he is well prepared to meet the threat of Ebola.]

Oh, and maintaining a supply of 3M N-95 respirators in one's home might be a good idea also.

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Originally posted by: DonDiego [As luck would have it, DonDiego just purchased a significant quantity of quality craft beers at the largest retail liquor/beer/party-supplies store in the world, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, . . . so he is well prepared to meet the threat of Ebola.]

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Originally posted by: alanleroyII
Beer Monger.

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Originally posted by: malibber2
I am sure there is a lot more than enough to treat two patients sitting around. It is just a case of who gets it has already been decided.

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Originally posted by: hoops2

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Originally posted by: malibber2
I do find it odd that the U.S. and apparently the Canadian government both have experimental treatments sitting on the shelves that nobody ever heard about until Ebola patients hit North American soil.

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I believe it was a test drug & we ran out of it after 2 patients

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Originally posted by: alanleroyII
Beer Monger.

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Indeed, poor old DonDiego will be quaffing Schlafly Coffee Stout, Great Lakes "Elliot Ness" Amber Lager, Founders Breakfast Stout and Curmudgean, and the Lexington Brewing Co. Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout for the next month.

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