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Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat

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Re: Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat

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Worth pointing out that there are two Ebola vaccines on the market. One is a recombinant vesticular stomavirus, VSV-EBOV, that was engineered to express an Ebola glycoprotein. It was found to be reliably efficient up to 5 days before infection in macaques. It requires only one dose to be effective, because the VSV will replicate in the host to some degree (asymptomatically) and produce a strong immune response.

There is also another 2-dose vaccine that is actually being distributed. I don't know much about it, but requiring a second dose likely means it's a protein fragment or attenuated Ebola virus, likely making it more heat stable and actually easier to distribute. Compliance is an issue, but it has proven effective in ring vaccination usage (vaccination of those around people who have contracted the disease).

There's also been some initiative to grow human Ebola antibodies in crops and distribute those as well.

As usual, the primary challenge to stopping Ebola spread is the political and social climate in the war torn DRC.

Re: Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also on firefox, right click "open in new private window" worked... but I don't think it always does. Maybe something to do with my ip address?

Recently some sites are using HTML5 client-side storage for their paywalls, not just cookies. Forget Me for Chrome seems to get them all, though. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forget-me-clean-hi...

Also. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clear-session/maej...

Re: Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat

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https://outline.com/zXFSvv

Thanks! By the way, if somebody happens to know a Python (or whatever) library/example which can do a job similar to what Outline does extracting and tidying pure content from a web page - let me know please. I don't plan any mass-scraping, just want to save some stuff for myself for offline reading.

I've recently changed a habit of mine where I amass a huge list of bookmarks or files that I'll "read later". I've owned a Kindle for a while now and recently had the idea that I can use the sendtokindle extension to send and store my articles for offline reading. I find it's easier to read the content and my Kindle is usually with me for times I want to read unlike my laptop with all the weight and distractions that come with it.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle

Re: Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat

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post #33

What happened to the Chinese scientist who developed the Ebola cure ZMapp? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ebola-henipah-china-...

This seems to be the latest news on it:

> In August 2019, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s national health authorities, the World Health Organization, and the National Institutes of Health announced that they would stop using ZMapp, along with all other Ebola treatments except REGN-EB3 and mAb114, in their ongoing clinical trials, citing the higher mortality rates of patients not treated with REGN-EB3 and mAb114

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMapp#Use_during_the_2014%E2%8...

So seems it's just used in some cases today.

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