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A BRITISH NURSE infected with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been discharged from a London hospital after recovering from the disease following treatment with the experimental drug ZMapp.
“I was very lucky,” said William Pooley, who had been working as a volunteer in one of the worst hit areas and was flown out of Africa on a specially-equipped British military plane.
“I had some unpleasant symptoms but nothing compared to some of the worst of the disease, especially when people end up dying,” said Pooley, who has been the only Briton reportedly infected.
The Royal Free Hospital, the only facility in Britain with a high-level isolation unit that can host Ebola patients, said the treatment had been “successful”.
Pooley, who spent 10 days in the hospital, was given ZMapp which was used on two US missionaries who also recovered.
“I wish that the level of care I’ve received here could be provided there,” the hospital quoted Pooley as saying.
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Delighted to hear he has made a full recovery. He went to help on his own , no charity backing just him. Now it’s time to make that drug more available to those in dire need in the countries affected. Assuming it will work alongside third world health care. Poor people haven’t a chance most of them.
He looks none the worse for wear.
When the HIV virus was killing people in months from really horrific combinations of syndromes, and the experimental drugs started to come out, there was a lot of ”just release it” and the drug companies saying ”we can’t , we need more data, more studies” and you had patients screaming at them in support group meetings ”we don’t have time for those studies, by the time they’re done some of us will be dead, what’s the difference were dead anyway at least try it on us”
If you think about the way medical research is done generally there is a huge ethical black hole right at the very heart of it. They tell you that you are participating in a clinical trial, nothing else is working for you so you think fantastic something new that might actually work. But you have no way of knowing if you’re getting the placebo or not, and that sugar pill might do nothing to help you, you may fade away and die while technically being given nothing to help you. The problem is that’s the only way to do these studies, it’s the only way to know for sure which works and which ones belong in the same category as homeopathy. Some say ”just try it, they’ll die anyway what diff does it make”, but not every patient is 100% doomed to die there is always the chance they pull through, then you give them a highly experimental drug (outside of a controlled trial) and lets say one of the side effects of that drug, that are not documented, is cardiac arrest. Boom, you’re dead. Who’s to say you would not have fought it off on your own? People do that with ebola all the time without anything but supportive drugs (treating symptoms not the actual virus).
They need data tested on a proper representational sample of patients that shows a drug stands up to scrutiny and does more good than harm. They can’t just blindly start letting loose all kinds of experimental drugs onto the world market and to hell with it sure they might get lucky and it might help someone. That would be extremely reckless of them. To release those drugs into a primitive healthcare system that can’t even handle administration of a regime of standard, approved medicines in some cases (like the HIV treatments) would be even more insane.
One or two people possibly being helped by a drug (and no not all of them are western doctors they are trying them on Africans) is not the same as a cure. They need to study a drug on a proper sample of patients before it can be released.
What tests did they carry out when the western world needed a vaccination for bird flu. Let’s cut through the crap. The drug companies don’t want to give anything without getting cash for it first. Ebola is hardly a new disease and the fact that two people have recovered after using this drug seems to point at the fact that the companies know it works.
Hang on a second… The drug is being developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. and has not yet been tested on humans for safety or effectiveness. – WHO has backed the use of untested drugs and vaccines, the scarcity of supplies begs the question…. Who gets priority treatment? it sure isn’t west Africa.
Nobody fully understands yet why some people recover from Ebola and others don’t. Some of it has to do with some people taking in less particles of the virus, so the immune system finds it easier to fight off.
When they say he recovered after being treated with the drug that’s not necessarily the same as the drug being the sole cause for his recovery.
Drugs need to be tested on humans for months or (more often) years before they can be approved for general use. An experimental group (given the drug) and control group (given a placebo) have to be established and the diff between them studied, the side FX documented, how frequent are the side effects etc etc
Once they have all that data they can release it for general use. They don’t have this data yet on these drugs, they tried them on some people (several of whom you’ll be glad to know were indeed Africans) as a last ditch since those people were heading for death anyway it was felt it was worth the risk, that’s a long way from putting it out for general release which may do harm to people whos immune systems might fight off the thing on their own anyway.
Some of the treatment protocols are very advanced and the African healthcare systems not capable of providing them without help. The impression, because these drugs being given to westerners, has developed in the media, that only westerners are getting the treatments that they are experimenting with, this is a false impression. Read the language in the stories carefully it’s easy to mistake their meaning.
And the English Gematria value for Enola Vaccines is……….
Enola vaccines would be 738. Numbers are letting you down today.
Should they not keep him in since it was an experiment and monitor him a bit longer
They have the data from the Americans who used this drug and were also released from hospital last week or the week before.
I assume they found no trace of the virus remaining in his blood stream, if he still had any symptoms at all he’d not be let out.
Be grand!
The Irish mammy rings up the CDC ”have you tried two solphadene and a bottle of 7up?…what about a hat watar bottle on de stomach dere…takes away de nausea”
As a patient frequently puking his guts up I can report these actually work
So there is a cure for Ebola , with the resources we have , everyone infected with Ebola could be cured .. Unfortunately our monetary system won’t allow it .. Wall Street & the world markets will have to make a profit on it .
There is no cure.. There is a drug that MAY have worked on 1-2 people. That’s not the same as a cure. In order to be labeled a cure something has to work with everyone. There is nowhere near enough data to call this a cure, some of the people given these experimental drugs (there is more than one) have died so were a long way from a cure.
Funny how the British and US patients have managed to receive treatment and be saved yet the poorer African patients have diddly squat. The African patients are being quarantined in not ideal conditions, are starving and probably terrified yet there is no news of a single African patient being cured? Or have I been missing those headlines?? Those who make decisions in this world trouble me, I feel like there is a serious lack of giving a sh!t for the original patients. Are they trialing the miracle cure on any of the original patients?
Plenty of African patients have recovered fully. We don’t yet know who is responding to a treatment and who is fighting it off on their own the research is still being done.
Here are the facts on these drugs for those who care about them:
-There is no ebola cure or established treatment that’s successful universally
-There is more than one experimental drug being tested.
-They are being tested on Africans as well as westerners
It takes months to years to develop a cure to something like this, sometimes decades, one person possibly being helped and a cure are poles apart.
-Two US aid workers, and the guy above, have got one of these drugs with two of them showing ‘good signs’ We don’t know for sure if it was the drug that cured this guy or his own immune system. This drug, Zampp is being made available in Africa AT NO COST. This drug is HIGHLY experimental, full testing has only been done on monkeys, but in desperation the Liberian President asked for it in case it might help some, and they agreed to provide her country with some, after they did this their supply of it outside immediate trials has been exhausted.
Money making scam
Future concern or troicare ad .. Just a simple donation of €5 can cure a child of the deadly virus Ebola !!! Seems like a lot of money to be made from this drug , disgraceful !!
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