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Priest With Ebola Dies In Spanish Hospital As Eight Chinese Workers Quarantined

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Sadly, the Spanish missionary priest who became infected with Ebola treating patients in Liberia has died in hospital in Madrid. As AP reports, Father Miguel Pajares died despite receiving the experimental drug ZMapp, and is one of 3 patients to receive it (the American doctors in Atlanta being the other 2). This morning the WHO confirmed the use of "experimental, unproven" Ebola drugs such as ZMapp was ethical in this situation, as the death toll tops 1000 in what WHO called the "most severe and most complex outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history." Perhaps most concerning of all this morning is news that China is quarantining 8 of its West African nurses (as the death toll among health workers surges).

 

As AP reports,

A Spanish missionary priest being treated for Ebola died Tuesday in a Madrid hospital, authorities said.

 

 

Spain's Health Ministry said a day earlier that it had obtained a course of the U.S.-made experimental Ebola drug ZMapp to treat Father Miguel Pajares, 75.

 

Pajares died Tuesday at Carlos III Hospital, the hospital and his order said. The hospital would not confirm that he had been treated with the drug, but his order said earlier that he would be.

 

He is one of only three Ebola patients thought to have received the experimental drug. The others are two Americans evacuated to Atlanta.

 

Pajares, who was treating people with Ebola at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia when he became infected, was evacuated to Spain on Thursday. He worked for the San Juan de Dios hospital order, a Spain-based Catholic humanitarian group that runs hospitals around the world.

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The World Health Organization confirms use of experimental and unproven Ebola drugs is ethical:

  • *WHO PANEL SAYS ETHICAL TO USE UNPROVEN EBOLA DRUGS
  • *WHO: LOOKING AT 3 TYPES OF PRODUCTS TO TREAT EBOLA
  • *WHO: HOPE THERE ARE MORE ZMAPP DOSES BY END OF YEAR
  • *WHO: WE DON'T MAKE ANY CHOICES ON WHO GETS EBOLA DRUGS
  • *WHO: IT'S A MARKET FAILURE THAT NO DRUG APPROVED FOR EBOLA
  • *WHO: APPEARS THAT ZMAPP HAD `DRAMATIC' EFFECT ON 2 AMERICANS (but not on the Spanish priest)
  • *WHO: DIFFICULT TO SAY WHETHER ZMAPP WORKS
  • *WHO: IMPORTANT NOT TO GIVE FALSE HOPE ABOUT EBOLA DRUGS

An ethics panel ruled that the drugs, which have not yet passed clinical trials but have shown early promise in combating the virus, could provide a “potent asset” in the battle to contain the epidemic, which it called the “most severe and most complex outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history.”

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Perhaps even more concerning is China's quarantining its West African nurses (as the death toll among health workers surges):

Eight Chinese medical workers who treated patients with Ebola have been placed in quarantine in Sierra Leone, Beijing's ambassador said Monday, but would not be drawn on whether they were displaying symptoms of the disease.

In addition, 24 nurses have been quarantined, health officials said, while a senior physician had contracted Ebola but was responding well to treatment.

The nation's sole virologist, who was at the forefront of its battle against the epidemic, died from Ebola last month.

As countries around the world were on alert, Japan said it was evacuating two dozen staff from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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And here is Bloomberg's roundup of the latest Ebola headlines:

  • Latest WHO death toll: 1,013
  • Spanish priest Pajares dies in Madrid hospital
  • WHO panel says ethical to use unproven Ebola drugs
  • Africa’s biggest city fights “wicked lies” on Ebola myths
  • U.S. approves experimental Ebola drugs for 2 Liberian doctors
  • Turkish Air sick passenger not suspected of Ebola: Official
  • Rwanda Health Ministry says suspected Ebola case tests negative
  • Japan pulls aid staff from West Africa: ENCA
  • Experimental Ebola drug supply exhausted, manufacturer says
 

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Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:40 | 5081158 TheFreeLance
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This means every missionary who comes down with Ebola will have dibs on a trip to ATL and the CDC. Watch.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:44 | 5081173 knukles
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Annnnnd we're off!
It's not airborne.  Y'all gotta eat bush monkey carpacchio ... with a side of bat fruit.

What the fuck is going on?  Airlifting all these infected people all over?
Holy Shit!

Why, if you were a little green man from Mars just plopped down here and taking a fresh look, you'd think that the great pre-planned culling has begun!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:45 | 5081176 SWRichmond
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Yup, so much for "containment".

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:50 | 5081184 onewayticket2
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that guy looks just like the spanish priest i sat next to on the plane!?!

 

/s

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:51 | 5081201 GetZeeGold
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Why didn't they just send them to Atlanta?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:59 | 5081229 Whoa Dammit
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We already have two too many in Atlanta, thank you very much.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:14 | 5081242 knukles
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I can just see it coming.
"Ebola is not a risk"
"Sanctions will hurt Russia, not us."

The Next Excuse for a negative Global GDP report:

Sanctions, Ebola and Weather

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:24 | 5081329 Vampyroteuthis ...
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HOPE THERE ARE MORE ZMAPP DOSES BY END OF YEAR

By the time "end of the year" comes millions will be dead. Day late dollar short.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:43 | 5081405 Publicus
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Nothing man made will work against a fast evolving epidemic. Start taking vitamin c powerder mix now if you want to see the end of the 21st century.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:49 | 5081434 Fish Gone Bad
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Vitamin C isn't going to save anyone.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:16 | 5081560 Overfed
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At least ya' won't have scurvy too.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:28 | 5081622 dontgoforit
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R.I.P. Pardre.  God bless your selfless efforts. 

Does anyone really believe the government authorities about 'containment' of this plague?  I believe we are seeing the beginning of a multi-year outbreak that will kill tens of millions - mostly in Africa.  How's that Zmapp working on the two in Atlanta? 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:56 | 5081781 Oliver Klozoff
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Exactly.

As alarming as the possibility of this extending to other countries, the death toll in Africa promises to be staggering.

It also is certain that there are those poised to profit from the carnage.

 

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:30 | 5081977 redpill
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This Ebola outbreak will end the same way they all do:  when all the people who refuse to take proper precautions are dead.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:28 | 5081959 redpill
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Quit with the vitamin C shit, this isn't infowars.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:12 | 5082184 walküre
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Dude, the end of the 21st century is 86 years away. NOBODY posting here will see that day!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:01 | 5081235 indygo55
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The could have sent them to the US/Mexican border. Then at least they would have plausable deniability.

 

Sarc/

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:15 | 5081285 PlausibleDenial
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I concur...

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:02 | 5081240 Jethro
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Atlanta is Africa

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:25 | 5081611 dontgoforit
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And St. Louis, and Detroit, and.....

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:33 | 5081650 Citxmech
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We are all Africans now?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:38 | 5081675 dontgoforit
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Inter-city America is Africa for sure; except where it's Hispanic.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:47 | 5081186 Whoa Dammit
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PR "news" article about "why" the Ebola patients were brought to Emory.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/emory-hospital-ceo-explains-why-he-...

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:59 | 5081226 Winston Churchill
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Pretty obvious now that Obozo was not going to cancel the African summit in DC.

So instead of stopping all air flights from Africa, like any sane person,he brought the victims

here as politcal cover.

Narcissism kills.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:15 | 5081289 knukles
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"as political cover"  Well said......
Oh my....
Oh my oh my....

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:39 | 5081684 dontgoforit
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'Political' - that would certainly fit his modus operandi.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:15 | 5081282 Urban Redneck
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In any place other than bizzaro world, his actual words would be grounds being immediately relieved of duty.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:26 | 5081332 HomeBrewPrepper
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While Ebola is very contagious, it is not spread by droplet or air, it has to be human contact,” Bachman said. “We are absolutely confident that our policies, our procedures, our structure, our containment unit are such that the virus will not get out into the rest of the hospital or anywhere else.”

So what if it is airborne? And this guy is in charge with no contingency plans

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:59 | 5081480 Fish Gone Bad
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It is worrisome that all those protected health care workers contracted the disease.

Plan A: The best plan.  Don't get around Ebola.

Plan B: The second best plan.  If you have to be around Ebola, be super protected and be super vigilant.

Plan C: The Oh Shit! contingency.  If you get infected with Ebola, get the drug.

(there is no plan D or E).

Plan F: This is the dealing with abject failure.   1) Lay down and die.  2) Give it to others.

FGB

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:35 | 5081665 Citxmech
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Yeah - wel this drug's effectivity just went from 100% to 67% - not much better than without it.

Let's see how effective it is once we actually get a useful sample size. . . (assuming enough can be produced to do soon enough to make a difference).

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 13:11 | 5082472 Pie rre
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The priest was in his advanced years.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:11 | 5081538 sushi
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Somebody needs to explain how it is that these healthcare workers, covered in 100% body hazemat suits, are dropping like flies.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:10 | 5081860 TheReplacement
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Because they aren't using respirators and the virus obviously isn't airborne.  Duh.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:07 | 5082150 Maxter
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They are not covered in "100% body hazemat suits".  That's why.

Also, I know of two cases where transmission was entirely possible and happened:

1- A stupid patient was urinating on hospital staff.

2- A nurse touched a particular object (without gloves) shortly after a sick patient did.

 

The 100% hazemat suits will be found on those treating the patient in the US, but they are not in africa.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:17 | 5082193 walküre
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EXACTLY! The bush nurses and doctors show up in loin cloth and sandals to treat Ebola. The Ebola patients were sent to the shaman and vodoo priest first.

Ebola will be eradicated in West Africa when the people there start shitting in porcelain.

They need sewer systems and sewer treatment plants. Millions of people aren't meant to live like a batch of flies on a huge pile of shit.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:21 | 5081589 smokintoad
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CDC updated their Ebola fact page on Aug 7.   Looks like the concept of personal space is more than just a psychological comfort zone.

Casual contact is defined as a) being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) or within the room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., healthcare personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations); or b) having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD case while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., droplet and contact precautions–see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations). At this time, brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute casual contact.

 

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:41 | 5081704 ebworthen
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Which means it is a new strain that is more contagious.

OOOPS!!!  Stop flying people out!!!! I don't want it!!!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:22 | 5081932 SilverRhino
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So things like being in a restaraunt / bar (prolonged contact), taxicab (already proven infection vector in Liberia) or an elevator, subway, anywhere recirculating / recycling air (planes, office buildings, night clubs, etc)

Put this under things to avoid. 

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:07 | 5081843 TheReplacement
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The CDC says it is only airborne within a meter.  With no fans or recirculating air temperature control system.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:35 | 5082000 BraveSirRobin
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Casual contact for the flu as defined by CDC is 6 feet, compared to ebola's 3 feet.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:30 | 5082263 Citxmech
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So on the bus, an infected individual might only infect two or three people instead of six or eight.  

That's comforting.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 13:28 | 5082561 balanced
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Yea unless they cough or sneeze. Have you ever seen the slow motion, high resolution video of a person sneezing. They blast [fluid droplets] into the air which quickly fill the room.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 17:17 | 5083477 dizzyfingers
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..." slow motion, high resolution video of a person sneezing. They blast [fluid droplets] into the air which quickly fill the room."

Yep, I've seen it. Ebola outbreak = a whole new definition of "terrifying". Where did I put my pressurized suit....

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 15:37 | 5083272 Iwanttoknow
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HBP,

right on.the dying Nigerian nurse swore that she did not come into contact with any bodily fluids.She however touched the patients's hand.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:31 | 5081346 p00k1e
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I can see it now, December 2014

“I didn’t realize what we were facing.  I apologize to the nation for misjudgment.”

- Bob

 

If you or yours come down with Ebola, pay the good Bob Bachman a visit and infect his family with lead. 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:48 | 5081189 Dr. Engali
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hey.... that's crazy talk right there Mr. Any more of that and we may have to admit you to the nearest psych ward. Oh and by the way, while you're there, we're taking all your guns you loon.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:19 | 5081307 HomeBrewPrepper
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That's why obummer plays so much golf. He knows the planned end is coming. Can't stop it. So might as well play some back 9 while people are still around to mow the lawn.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:12 | 5081880 TheReplacement
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I like to play contrarian but yeah, I got nothing here.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:39 | 5082018 knukles
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Cloward Piven IS WORKING

He deserves a grand vacation.  His plans to overburden the system are proceeding along in an absolutely marvelous manner.  With no push-back to speak of.
The Grand Culling Has Begun....

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:31 | 5082267 Citxmech
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Well shit - it's not like he's making any of the decisions anyway.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:42 | 5081401 ebworthen
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My thought exactly - we don't know why this is so contagious that health workers are getting it - and otherwise educated people who know sanitary procedures - but let's airlift everyone back to their home country!

Fucking brilliant.  The virus is happy I'm sure.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:03 | 5081820 virgilcaine
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It's gone viral.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:17 | 5081908 Kirk2NCC1701
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Basic physics and the flaws of human nature are adequate to explain why health workers are getting infected:

They're NOT wearing Ebola (Space) suits, and they're NOT following decontamination procedure (showers with suits on and then with suits off, etc, etc).

There's NO way they're doing that. Rather, they are all using improvised methods that are simply inadequate.

Hubris is more dangerous than the virus. Dumb-ass Earthlings!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:51 | 5081199 ss123
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The drug works, god just brought him home :-P

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5081256 junction
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ZMapp Scorecard: W-2, L-1

Zmapp probably doesn't work, a drug based more on hope (or the synthetic drug favored by Obummer followers, hopium) than science.  You notice the almost total silence from big drug companies like Pfizer, GSK and Sanofi-Aventis on any drugs these companies have in the pipeline to treat a disease like Ebola hemmorhagic fever?  U.S. drug companies are more interested in inversions than cures these days.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:32 | 5081644 still kicking
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If I had to guess it's more likely that the strain of just a few days of the violent symptoms was too much for a 75 year old.  There is no telling if the drug works or not yet.  That's what really makes you wonder if this is a planned or unwasted opportunity, old people will take the brunt of the deaths, social security problem solved.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:34 | 5081661 Matt
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It was probably too late. For the animal trials for Tekmira's solution, it was 100% effective if administered the day the animal was exposed to the virus, but down to something like 85% on day two, if I recall correctly.

You would need to be treated at time of infection, which is days or even a couple weeks before any symptoms show up.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 13:31 | 5082581 Flagit
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Did they research the effects of using it as a preemptive cure?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:58 | 5082123 Skip
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These Christian missionaries are NUTS, flat out NUTS, the churches have been infected with liberalism, worship "People of Color and pay for your sins" propaganda and boy does it take hold. And it is NOT what Jesus taught, somehow Christianity got changed into Social Justice and all that. And worship of the Jewish people for Evangelicals. Just INSANE.
Note that these White Christians ever anxious to help Haiti, Africa, Central and South America and Asia, like Mother Theresa, NEVER help Whites, doesn't compute. Jesus was shall we say a bit not P-C but who really READS what he said.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:40 | 5081160 holdbuysell
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He died in MADRID???

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:44 | 5081170 IridiumRebel
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You mean you didn't know? Motherfuckin' CNBSBCBBC was all over it.....

oh wait.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:24 | 5081938 Kirk2NCC1701
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Yeah they could not find any available beds in a remote corner of the Canary Islands, or any other remote part of Spain.

I'm guessing it was the same Spanish Brainiacs, who run their banks or their World Cup Fur-ball team. /s

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:46 | 5081162 TideFighter
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There will never be a cure, only treatment. 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:53 | 5081204 GetZeeGold
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The good news is it's covered by Obamacare....the bad news is it's administered by the VA.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:31 | 5081347 MonsterBox
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With the charitable help from the IRS & efficiency of the Post Office.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:38 | 5081383 GetZeeGold
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What would Lois Lerner do?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:46 | 5081726 dontgoforit
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What would Eric Holder do?  What would Jesus do?  What are we going to do?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:41 | 5082032 knukles
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Erase your e-mails?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:44 | 5082336 MsCreant
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Jesus would take a whip and drive all the politicians out of Washington D.C. Then he'd go over to the Fed and empty that shit out. 

(Wouldn't it be a great movie? Talk about a feel good flick!)

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 16:49 | 5083786 dizzyfingers
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"What are we going to do?"

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, pray often, love your family and friends.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:43 | 5081165 IridiumRebel
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I guess when we reach the million mark of deaths we may begin to deal with this coming and growing plague....until then you all need to get ready cuz Mama Media won't tell you shit about the truth. ZMAPP has been cashed and proven not a panacea. Prepare or suffer the consequences. I am growing tired of the huge amount of shit going on in this world.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:46 | 5081179 knukles
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Thank God for some peace of mind, for it's times like this in the past, woulda been a great excuse to "escape"
But is flabbergasting, the madness, no?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:05 | 5081250 IridiumRebel
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To leave such adoration from his incalculable talent on these terms is frightening. We just got today Knuks. ZH helps. You help.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:12 | 5081273 knukles
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We shall know Him, and call Him by name.
It works ... and that's all that matters.
Thanks.
Blessings,
K

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:47 | 5081734 dontgoforit
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All you guys help get me through the day.  Thanks for the serious comment and the moments of levity.  I appreciate all of you.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:54 | 5082380 IridiumRebel
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...backatcha and all the others. Even you State Dept Fuckheads. 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:46 | 5081182 Winston Churchill
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So did Robin Williams.

Don't do it.....

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:50 | 5081195 msmith9962
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That's right.  Tend your garden.  Changes your point of view.  It is where hope grows in a hopeless situation.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5081212 IridiumRebel
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Sober almost 8 years and I fought like a motherfucker plus I got three souls dependent on me. My egress will be a tad different than the brilliant Robin Williams. I had squash and tomatoes I grew for dindin last night. Bells are a couple weeks away.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:05 | 5081251 msmith9962
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Good, on one hand I suspect ZH readers are susceptible, on the other hand moving to the other side of awareness helps.  I have three pipsqueaks in my charge plus my lovely wife.  My neighbor was over last night to try one of my spareribs for a cookoff we are entering in the neighborhood next month and he was carrying on about how screwed up the world is (referring to ISIS) and he mentioned an email exchange with another neighbor from our poker group. Both of these guys have said they have had a bunch of days in a row where they read something which ruined their day.

 

 The other neighbor said that if he's right about  the worlds escalating violence and I'm right about the financial situation then things are going downhill fast. I then said, do you know about peak oil?  He said huh, what's that. I sent him some resources on the topic as well as the monetary system with the warning that these could ruin his day for several weeks.  He's got two kids under 3.  Sorry for the rambling.  Thanks for your comments Irridium, I'm following them.

 

Peace!

 

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:13 | 5081280 IridiumRebel
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Yes, glad we connected. I got two under three and I am at least happy to be aware. The sharing of info here is immeasurable. We need all we can get. I'll be here until the power is cut.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:07 | 5081521 Fish Gone Bad
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Life is like a table top.  You go about your life and then come to an edge and change happens.  Sometimes you come to a corner and change REALLY happens.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:23 | 5081322 PoliticalRefuge...
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Good on you bro, alcohol took my dad at an early age.

Most won't admit to a problem until it's too destructive to ignore, keep on focusing on what is real.

I got a feeling we will see a lot of early checkouts in the coming few years.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:33 | 5081355 g speed
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good work--it's the twelfth that is the hardest--

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:53 | 5081762 dontgoforit
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I'm with you Iridium - I'm 8 years sober, too.  Jack Daniels and I got a bit too close.  4 continents with him always available.  Until one day - it was enough (and they made the damn stuff 80-proof...can you imagine? - it helped me quit, no joke.  I even wrote a letter to them in Lynchburg, TN.)  No doubt it has saved my life for ebola.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 14:21 | 5082819 Flagit
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Ive been to the distillery. They have a natural spring that they use as their water source.

Do they do any fracking in TN?

http://ecowatch.com/2013/06/10/industry-targets-tn-state-passes-fracking...

 

The distillery is a mere 90 miles from Chattanooga, which lies close to the center of the width of Chattanooga shale field, placing all those mystery fracking chemicals some 45 miles from the Jack Daniels Distillery natural spring.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:33 | 5082274 Tall Tom
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So did Robin Williams.

Don't do it.....

 

Why not? It is rather tempting at times. Especially when this fucking Ibuprofen does not take the edge off of the pain.

 

(And I will not go to a Doctor to become dependent on their narcotics. I have been there and they want to play a Power Trip with you.)

 

Living to suffer only to end it with a horrid death from Ebola...or Fuckyoushima...or World War III or Social Collapse staring you in the face?

 

It is rather inviting.  You already know the outcome of this Perfect Storm of disaster headed in your direction. There are no solutions as this is a predicament...not a problem.

 

It is pretty fucked up. It is not just one crisis but a cascade of them. It is like the "Perfect Storm" all developing coincidentally.

 

Any one of these would be concerning enough but to have all of them forming at the same time is guaranteed to overwhelm us.

 

There is no escape from the Mathematics of it. No matter how much you wish the ground away as you fall from the cliff the Physics of the situation will provide for that sudden fatal stop at the end.

 

I do not bet on infinitesimal odds. Oh there are miracles, but, I do not count on them.

 

Oh I will be here tomorrow. And the next day. And the next...I am not going anywhere...not yet. But I have the Insulin ready.

 

But who am I to tell someone else not to do it? I am not in their shoes. I am not experiencing their pain.

 

I really cannot blame them. The saddest part is that I actually can understand.

 

So why not?

 

There is no fucking hope.

 

If there is no hope then why suffer needlessly?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:52 | 5082366 IridiumRebel
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....from my cold dead fingers. I will always have hope.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 14:00 | 5082737 msmith9962
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Things are adding up towards the perfect storm you speak of, particularly if one listens to GuyMcpherson.  However, these events are only what I am aware of, I have been fortunate to not experience the pain of any of this yet.  Who is to say what will happen when things hit home.  I've never been a hang it up type of person but then life has been pretty good.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:04 | 5081243 indygo55
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How can I invest in this ZMAPP company? Or is it limited to US politicians and bankers.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:18 | 5081271 IridiumRebel
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You want TKMR or CONX

I've made a killing and plan on taking the profits to complete the doomsday solar generator. 

 

Edit: They are getting hammered today by "traders" so it's a good day to buy. It will go back up. TKMR has a drug that was almost ready for human testing and CONX has a joint NIH deal for rapid Ebola test.

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:17 | 5081299 Urban Redneck
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When we reach the million death mark, there should also be a million survivors with ebola antibodies in their blood. There's bright side to most things...

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:44 | 5081168 Cognitive Dissonance
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"There has always been Ebola in Madrid" - 1984 2014

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:45 | 5081177 RaceToTheBottom
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Meet your ebola drug and raise you two erection drugs...

 

Bullish, profits!!!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:05 | 5081247 GetZeeGold
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You did take out a patent on that......right?

Wed, 08/13/2014 - 14:04 | 5081351 RaceToTheBottom
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Me?  No, that is just a cost....

I use the modern business model:  Steal from others, and have an army of lawyers on retainer to defend the in-defensible and immoral......

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:52 | 5081761 NotGrokkingIt
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Does that cock-tail cause you to ejaculate blood?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:54 | 5081178 Seek_Truth
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"Greater love hath no one than this: to lay down one's life for his fellow man."- John 15:13

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:10 | 5081265 BrosephStiglitz
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"Unless thy fellow man doth verily consume the flesh of a monkey, or imbibe the blood of a fruitbat.  For if that man bleedeth from all orifices, 'tis best to turn and run."- John 15:14

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:35 | 5081362 Gavrikon
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Where's the part about said "one" bringing back death for your loved ones?

Yeah, I wouldn't count on that "love" cutting much at judgement day.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:54 | 5081456 Seek_Truth
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Not sure I follow you- are you saying you don't believe in the resurrection of the dead?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:46 | 5081180 BrosephStiglitz
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Meanwhile in other news:

The world is entirely happy, states the political class.   Sunshine, rainbows and unicorns for every citizen.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:50 | 5081197 knukles
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You forgot the Skittles.... which really angers me.

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=youtube+happy+happy+joy+joy+song&ei=UT...

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:47 | 5081183 HomeBrewPrepper
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Just let me know when I should self quarantine myself and family in my house.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:47 | 5081733 Matt
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A month ago.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:51 | 5081190 North Sea Cowboy
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Time to start stocking up on tinned food and bottled water along with some home protection. Pretty stunning news.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:55 | 5081209 knukles
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Not like we didn't see this coming.
People in contact with the sick and dying being freely transported about the globe.
With the full knowledge that there's airborne transmission (Always has been, kids)

Golly gosh, gee wiz.

What's stunning is the proactive nature of moving infected people about the globe.
Is this no mistake?

The NWO's mass culling has begun.
Almost as if this shit ad been prophesied in the Bible or something.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:51 | 5081200 Bangin7GramRocks
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So now three people were given the serum. All white. Not to make a big deal about this, but it seems a bit fucked up. This kind of shit will create a billion new enemies of the U.S. if they continue. Fuckers!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5081214 knukles
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I didn't know there were a billion people left who were not already enemies.
Huh....

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:59 | 5081225 Navymugsy
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Jesus stated that the white folks get all remedies first. It's in Deutorectomy. Don't be a Jesus hater!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:20 | 5081314 shovelhead
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You have difficulty understanding the concept of experimental?

You don't produce large quanties of experimental drugs because ...DUH! They're experimental.

Now you have medical specialists who can save lives or a truck driver who eats monkey meat. Who gets the few doses made?

Not a hard choice to me.

Fuck the "White Privileged" crowd anyway. They're useless lefty whiners.

I don't see any bushman witch doctors creating a cure for Ebola so , sorry to say, the line forms at the rear.

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:37 | 5082283 BrosephStiglitz
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Vice did a great documentary on Liberian bushmeat.  It is on youtube.

But seriously, so much what you said.  Hell, I'm white and I don't expect a Hercules air transport to be dropping me any Zmapp.  I'm looking out for myself and hoping that probability is on my side. 

People shouldn't pull the "blame whitey" card for how and who this drug gets distributed to.  Just in the same way white people/other people shouldn't be playing the "blame uneducated cannibal, monkey/fruitbat/groundhog diseased meat eating dipshits card" for who this disease gets distributed to.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:21 | 5081315 Urban Redneck
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The US government has confirmed that it will send doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat doctors in Liberia. The treatment has been so far used on just three people, however, there is no vaccine for the virus.

US President Barack Obama and the Food and Drug Administration approved the request Monday to send the experimental drugs to Liberia, the West African nation's government said in a statement.

Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc, which makes the drug ZMapp, released a statement on their website that said, "In responding to the request received this weekend from a West African nation, the available supply of ZMapp is exhausted."

"Any decision to use ZMapp must be made by the patients' medical team," it said, adding that the drug was "provided at no cost in all cases."

It remains unclear, however, how much of the treatment would be sent.

http://www.dw.de/liberia-to-receive-experimental-ebola-drug-from-the-us/...

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:30 | 5081635 BeerMe
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Would you actually give it to Africans?  Why?  They would just bring on some new disease.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:53 | 5081206 atthelake
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Some quarantines are better than others. If you take 8 nurses and quarantine them in the same place, without separating them, they will all get Ebola or they will all not get Ebola. I have my suspicions that normal quarantine is not enough for Ebola.

Ebola IS airborne.

Africa is a hot place. Will Ebola do as well in America's cooler places? Does temperature have anything to do with spread? We don't know.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5081217 d edwards
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Africa is a hot place.

 

Maybe the POLAR VORTEX will save us!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:46 | 5082345 Hephaestus
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To bad you cant save yourself by jumping in super cold water to knock down virus levels in your bloodstream.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:54 | 5081208 buzzsaw99
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ah, my morning ebola doom porn.

excellent! [/mr. burns]

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:55 | 5081213 d edwards
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They're gonna keep screwing around until this is a global epidemic.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:46 | 5082053 knukles
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They're gonna keep screwing around until after the global pandemic

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:55 | 5081211 Old Man River
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Experimental Ebola drug supply exhausted, manufacturer says

 

Word gets out darn fast when OMR has treats for the kiddies. Then kids you aint never seen start coming out from everywhere. Knowing darn well I got more for tomorrow, I just holler: "That's it! I'm out! No more treats!"

 

Same as it ever was, ain't it?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5081218 Sudden Debt
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Okay :) the succesrate of the "experimental" drug just dropped 33.33%

It's almost like Russian roulette :)

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5081219 Bangin7GramRocks
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WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:59 | 5081231 GetZeeGold
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If I hear good morning Vietnam one more time......I'm gonna beg to die.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:22 | 5081323 shovelhead
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Hanging is pretty effective.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:40 | 5081395 p00k1e
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Na-noose, Na-noose?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:56 | 5081465 LFMayor
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He joined Carradiene...  

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:42 | 5081603 atomp
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Perhaps. How many Thai prozies where witnessed fleeing the scene?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:27 | 5081621 Overfed
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It's funny that you say that. The description of his death on the news is "asphyxiation". Not that he hung himself or whatever. WTF is it with old guys strangling themselves while they beat off?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:24 | 5081945 viahj
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not a bad way to go

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:56 | 5081221 yogibear
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Sure it's hard to get... Just don't panic as more and more people accross the globe get Ebola.

Winter is on it's way. Eventually is it Ebola or the flu?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:20 | 5081305 Tenshin Headache
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Yup, and it seems the only question to sift out those with ebola from those with flu is: "Have you been in West Africa in the last 21 days?"

Once it begins to crop up in other countries, and domestically, it will be "Have you been anywhere in the last 21 days?" Not too helpful. Are we going to isolate everyone with flu symptoms, quarantine all their contacts?

 

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:28 | 5081339 PoliticalRefuge...
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I guess we are doomed to painting ourselves into a corner eh?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 08:58 | 5081222 Sudden Debt
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If I would be sick...

my last wish...

WOULD BE TO GO TO A CONCERT!!

With 50.000 people arround me singing songs why I cough myself to death :)

It's just so romantic to die like that...

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:30 | 5081341 knukles
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.... a bloody wonderful evening....

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:57 | 5081471 SilverRhino
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Cheeky

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:32 | 5081356 himaroid
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D.C. concert schedule coming right up.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:09 | 5081236 Tio-CR
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Per Doctor Thomas Levy.... like with scurvy syndrome....

 

the reason for the hemorrhage in diseases like dengue, ebola and west nile viruses is the low level of vitamin C....

 

a treatment with intravenous vitamin c can stop the hemorrhage thus, the  death toll ....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpptUsJFCEY

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:55 | 5081457 hairInTheSoup
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the liposomal way is more efficient than the iv

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:04 | 5081239 Latitude25
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If this thing is as easy to transmit as some claim then it should sweep through Lagos Nigeria and wipe out a huge % of the population.  Watch for what happens there and then you will know the truth about this virus.  If it does kill millions in Lagos then prepare to isolate yourself no matter where you live.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:27 | 5081333 dearth vader
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21 million people are living in Lagos. If or when the epidemic gets underway many will flee the city to the countryside where they came from. In a short while, the whole of Nigeria will be infected. The same is going to happen in other countries.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:05 | 5081246 GrinandBearit
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Airliners missing/crashing, wars, terrorists, Ebola, police brutality, riots, Robin Williams, dogs and cats living together... 

Could it get any worse?

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:08 | 5081255 IridiumRebel
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yes

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:04 | 5081830 dontgoforit
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And it certainly is going to.  You can count on it.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:07 | 5081254 EZYJET PILOT
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The drugs killed him!

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:25 | 5082234 MsCreant
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Sue the fuckers that gave em the drug, untested. Bastards.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 09:11 | 5081257 hairInTheSoup
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i have no idea what part of this ebola thing is fear mongering, but just in case, mark these words :

 

mega dose of liposomal vitamin c

 

(the liposome helps our liver processing the mega dose as it treats it as fat -no limit while the liver cannot much process much vit c molecule every day, the excedent is directly evacuated)

 

it may not prevent catching it, but it 'll surely prevent dying from it

 

(i know i know what you'll think if it were working they'd be using it because big pharma only objective is our health... except that big pharma cannot patent vitamins, therefore any treatment based on vitamins is killing their profit; so why heal for cheap when you can search for expensive & profitable alternative eh ?)

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 11:15 | 5081837 dontgoforit
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When taken with a dose of 100mg of resveritrol, the useful consumption of vitamin c is increased 100-fold.  In other words - take vitamin c with your red wine.

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 14:04 | 5082760 hairInTheSoup
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unfortunately, nowadays, red wine contains very very little resveratrol if none at all (unless you buy from a local french/italian producer that does it the ancient way without any chemical anywhere in the process).

Tue, 08/12/2014 - 12:28 | 5082242 MsCreant
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 "but it 'll surely prevent dying from it"

This statement right here is all I need from you to know that everything you are saying is bullshit.

FUCK OFF, PLEASE. Hate to be rude...

edit: or FUCK OFF AND TAKE LIPOSOMAL VITAMIN C IN THE HOPES THAT YOU SURELY WON'T DIE FROM IT.

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