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Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 3:16:33 PM   
pahunkboy


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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 3:23:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, that is big news.  I don't know how much people know about ebola, but it is damn scary stuff. We're just lucky that it hasn't been easily transmitted by humans.

Thanks for sharing this with us.  I for one found it really interesting.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 3:35:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Interesting. This method may cure most viral diseases, including my herpes.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 3:37:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		It certainly IS encouraging.   Cool.   If this is true- it would lead to other cures.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 4:40:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		It probably will be sabotaged and buried. It would negate the purpose of having created and distributed HIV, and indeed as the blog said, cures have no economic worths, only subscription medication taken for a lifetime and usually utterly worthless and causing worse side effects, bring in money.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 5:06:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		I for one am SO excited about all this new research!

This research just adds to the excitement of a possible cure/vaccine for Herpes Virus.

To think there could be a cure and a vaccine for these viruses within my lifetime is an awesome thought.

http://www.biovex.com/03_04_10_Immunovex_trial.html



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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 5:09:23 PM   
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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 5:33:47 PM   
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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 5:35:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		Promising, but the liver enzyme thing is worrisome.  There was an drug back around 1992 (FIAU, similar to AZT and ddI) that worked fantastically against Hep B in a small short clinical trial...and almost every subject's liver failed after the study was over (about 4 weeks later).  They required transplantation, and most died.

I can see why it wouldn't be news for awhile in the US, and it wouldn't hit Discover or SciAm for one or two issues.  I am surprised that Medscape's not shown it yet. 

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 6:01:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Effective cures against viral diseases would cause 99 per cent of all medical personnel to become unemployed and also most hospitals to close. The pharmaceutical industry would for a couple of years at least nearly halt altogether.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 6:08:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		How do you derive those stats?  Especially at the hospital level, where viral admissions are relatively rare (pneumonia/meningitis)?

Please use something other than your supergenius status.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 6:29:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Dream on. It'll never happen. We're not talking just billions at stake here, we're talking trillions when adding the employment fallout in the medical community, big pharma, and related industries, if viral diseases are eliminated. The current state of the economy couldn't handle this.

Mark my words, the upper crust will suppress an economic death-blow like this. The pain, suffering, and deaths of a few hundred thousand people isn't nearly enough to allow the whole system to collapse.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 6:43:36 PM   
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The pain, suffering, and deaths of a few hundred thousand people isn't nearly enough to allow the whole system to collapse.

Um, it's billions of people.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 6:55:39 PM   
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How do you derive those stats?  Especially at the hospital level, where viral admissions are relatively rare (pneumonia/meningitis)?
Please use something other than your supergenius status.

I suppose in the USA most people in the hospital have bullet wounds? Cowboys.

Let me keep it extremely simple for you: if there are no bullet wounds, then it is viral. (That is supergenius speaking in metaphorical language.)

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 9:28:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Um, you forgot cancers, obstetrics, pulmonary diseases, heart disease, congenital defects, bacterial infections (becoming an increasing problem with more resistant bugs), trauma (other than bullets), neurological disorders, etc.  About the only thing viral there is liver cancer due to Hep B/C.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 5/31/2010 10:36:48 PM   
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Um, you forgot cancers, obstetrics, pulmonary diseases, heart disease, congenital defects, bacterial infections (becoming an increasing problem with more resistant bugs), trauma (other than bullets), neurological disorders, etc.  About the only thing viral there is liver cancer due to Hep B/C.

And you ignored that I was speaking metaphorically. Besides, various of the phenomena that you name are caused by viruses. Diseases caused by viruses are one of my specialties. I spent three years full-time writing a book about them; I ought to pick it up again and complete it, or just cut out the handful of unfinished chapters and publish what is left. Should have done so years ago for I have since been scooped on one of my discoveries.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 6/1/2010 1:39:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		We now know that Alex Jones can be heard across the pond.

Imagine that?  

The premise that the "industry" is correct- just like the war industry.  Any time you reward a problem with money- somehow you get even more problem.

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 6/1/2010 5:21:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hemorrhagic fevers are one of the few things that freak me out, so this takes a load off my mind.

Now, anyone got a cure for clowns?

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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 6/1/2010 5:45:24 PM   
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RE: Ebola cure? wow - 6/1/2010 6:56:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, it's about damn time those scientists and MDs got off their asses and did something constructive.  I'll bet you one of them actually contracted the disease and that's why there is now a cure for it.

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