Ethical questions emerge over who gets experimental Ebola drug

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They said there were no doses. The Nigeria was denied. Then a week later Spain health minister damn near cured a nikka of a dose.

Nigeria expressed interest and had the money, so idk.

That's a legitimate concern. I'd like to know how that decision was made.
 

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Spanish media reported Sunday that two African nuns infected with Ebola who worked with the Spanish missionaries were denied permission to join them on the flight to Madrid. One of the African nuns, Sister Chantal Pascaline, died Saturday at San Jose Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.

“Despite the priest’s hope that the two nuns would travel with him [to Spain], they were required to remain in Monrovia,” said the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais. “After the departure of Father Pajares and Sister Bonoha from Liberia, and after days of requesting that they be evacuated from the country, the ailing nuns had lost hope and were simply ‘waiting to die.’”


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Disgusting. And you guys wonder why I call this mullato president a c00n. For those not in the know, Obama recently rebuffed a request by the Nigerian Heath ministry for Ebola, stating that the drug is unsafe, mean while, they are using this drug with much success for the white victims afflicted with the disease. Obama had also agreed to send the drug to Spain to treat a new victim there. This guy is beyond pathetic at this point.

Nigeria: 10 Ebola Cases Confirmed As Outbreak Spreads http://allafrica.com/stories/201408113075.html
keep on pushing. keep exposing fakkits.
 

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I don't know. Someone has to get it first. It's only been used on 2 people. I'm not an expert on experimental drug protocol for human use.

I'm just tired of the OP's hyperbolic stupid shyt like "Obama tells Nigeria to go fukk itself" in lieu of real reporting/discussion.

They can't even PRODUCE the drug because theres not even enough money to do so or methods to even ramp up mass availability
 

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did you even bother to read the link? You are as uniformed as they come.
I have limits to my impartiality. When someone does some dumb shyt, I have to call it how I see it. FYI, this is why you don't post hyperbolic stupid shyt:

Ebola outbreak: Liberia says experimental drug on the way from US
Liberian government says ZMapp will be given to two infected doctors, while US manufacturer says supply has now run out
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Ebola awareness signs at a checkpoint in Borni, Liberia. Photograph: STRINGER/REUTERS
Liberia has announced it is to receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug and give it to two sick doctors, making them the first Africans to receive some of the scarce treatment in a spiralling outbreak.

The US government confirmed that it had put Liberian officials in touch with the maker of ZMapp and referred additional questions to the manufacturer. In a statement, the California-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical said that in responding to a request from an unidentified west African country it had run out of its supply of the treatment.

The news came amid growing anger over the fact that the only people to receive the experimental treatment so far had been westerners: two Americans and a Spaniard, all of whom were evacuated to their home countries from Liberia.

On Monday the World Health Organisation said 1,013 people had died in the Ebola outbreak in west Africa. Authorities had recorded 1,848 suspected, probable or confirmed cases of the disease, the UN health agency said. The updated WHO tally includes figures from 7-9 August when 52 more people died and 69 more were infected.

There is no Ebola vaccine or treatment available but there are several in development besides ZMapp. That treatment is so new that it has not been tested for safety or effectiveness in humans. The company has said it would take months to produce even modest quantities.

It was unclear how much of the treatment would be sent to Liberia.

The Liberian statement, posted on the presidency’s website, said it was also receiving an experimental treatment from the World Health Organisation. It was unclear if this was referring to ZMapp or another treatment.

In the past few weeks the experimental drug was given to two American aid workers diagnosed with the disease while working at a hospital that treated Ebola patients. On Monday officials in Spain disclosed that the treatment was also given to a Spanish missionary priest who fell ill while working in Liberia.

The Americans are said to be improving but there was no way to know whether the drug helped or if they are getting better on their own. Around 40% of those infected with Ebola are surviving the current outbreak.

Some have called for the untested drug to be given to Africans. The outbreak was first identified in March in Guinea but likely started months earlier. It has since spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, and possibly to Nigeria.

The ethical dilemmas over using an untested drug and who should get it prompted the UN health agency to consult on Monday with ethicists, infectious disease experts, patient representatives and the Doctors Without Borders group. Most participants in the closed teleconference were from developed countries but Uganda and Senegal were represented. The World Health Organisation said it would discuss the results of the meeting at a press conference on Tuesday.

Companies can provide experimental drugs on a “compassionate use” basis, usually after they have been fully tested in humans. The Food and Drug Administration approves such uses in the US but has no authority overseas. Ultimately the companies alone decide whether or not to share their products.

Spain’s health ministry said it obtained ZMapp this weekend with company permission to treat Miguel Pajares, a 75-year-old priest evacuated from Liberia and placed in isolation on Thursday at Madrid’s Carlos III hospital.

“The medicine was imported from Geneva where there was one dose available in the context of an accord between the laboratory that developed the medicine, WHO and [Doctors Without Borders],” the ministry said, invoking a Spanish law permitting unauthorised medication for patients with life-threatening illnesses.

Spanish authorities refused to comment beyond the ministry’s statement but Geneva University hospital told the Associated Press it was involved in getting the drug to Madrid.

The evacuated American aid workers, Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, have been improving at Atlanta’s Emory University hospital. They got the treatment after their international relief group Samaritan’s Purse asked Kentucky BioProcessing, which produces it for Mapp Biopharmaceutical.

The treatment mixes three antibodies engineered to recognise Ebola and bind to infected cells so the immune system can kill them.

A Sierra Leone official said they had not asked for the drug but the other governments said they wanted any treatment that might help patients recover, despite the risks of unproven medicines. “The alternative for not testing this is death, a certain death,” said Liberia’s information minister, Lewis Brown.

Alhoussein Makanera Kake, a spokesman for the Guinean government committee on Ebola, said: “Guinean authorities would naturally be interested in having this medicine.”

In other Ebola developments on Monday an African nun who worked with the infected Spanish priest died from Ebola in Liberia, their Catholic aid group said.

A nurse who treated Patrick Sawyer also died, Nigerian authorities said. She had treated the Liberian-American when he flew into Nigeria and died last month. The nurses’s death raised the number of locally confirmed Ebola cases to 10. Nigeria is monitoring 177 contacts of Sawyer to contain the outbreak. The WHO has yet to confirm any Ebola cases in Nigeria.

Ivory Coast, which shares borders with Liberia and Guinea, has banned direct flights from the infected countries and said it would increase health inspections and enforcement of its borders, but stopped short of closing them entirely.

George Weah, a Liberian former Fifa world player of the year, joined awareness efforts by recording a song titled Ebola Is Real, with proceeds going to the Liberian health ministry.
 

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There is more questions that people have asked this morning.

I would post them OP... but... Eventually it will come out and


you know these nikkas in here.
 
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