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2014-10-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Ebola Serum For Africa Patients Within Weeks, Says WHO

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Nyt story said african population tripled in the last 4 decades.

300% increase

You can cure all the diseases but then what do you do when the sheer number of people gets too much for the food supply?.

Posted by Anon1 2014-10-23 05:23|| 2014-10-23 05:23|| Front Page Top

#2 You increase the food supply.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-10-23 07:56|| 2014-10-23 07:56|| Front Page Top

#3 It's about time they learn too increase the food supply.

Posted by chris 2014-10-23 09:27|| 2014-10-23 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 They will just migrate to where there is more food, at least relatvely speaking - someplace like Iowa.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-10-23 10:48|| 2014-10-23 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 If people are starving in Africa, they should move to France!

/obscure?

Posted by Raj 2014-10-23 10:53|| 2014-10-23 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 love how the WHO now say they've got serum

the same organisation - $4.27 billion budget - that couldn't isolate a couple of villages in February

Same organisation that stopped printing standardised new infection figures in august and hasn't resumed

Posted by anon1 2014-10-23 10:56|| 2014-10-23 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 also think that all help from now on to any third world country anywhere in the world should come with the following strings attached:
- govt to pay a baby bonus for first two children
- govt to charge a child tax for any third or subsequent child.
- after a man has had 2 children (not before), they get $2000 cash payment to get a vasectomy if they want one

encourage people just to have 2 kids, round the world. THat way the crashing fish stocks and depleted arable land won't be a problem in future. Everyone still gets to procreate, and everyone is happy.

Posted by anon1 2014-10-23 11:00|| 2014-10-23 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I expect Ebola in the Hot Zone will start to diminish in intensity any week now, treatments & vaccine will be a bit late to the party. Ebola is also creating a large number of aymptomatic survivors, detectable only by seroconversion - which they may or may not be looking for in the Hot Zone.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-23 11:19|| 2014-10-23 11:19|| Front Page Top

#9 MSF's ELWA3 Ebola field hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, largest built. Open since 21 Aug 2014. Aerial view 21 Oct 2014.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-23 11:51|| 2014-10-23 11:51|| Front Page Top

#10 #5 If people are starving in Africa, they should move to France!

Ebolans eat cake and not fufu?
Michelle Antoinette would go cuckoo.
"Though I nosh on brioche,
For the peeps it's too posh."
Lord Maw-Maw sez, "Let them eat tofu!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-10-23 15:35|| 2014-10-23 15:35|| Front Page Top

#11 She said trials of two possible Ebola vaccines could produce initial results by the end of the year.

That's months not weeks, and I don't believe them in any case. Over promise and under deliver is the WHO MO.

Posted by regular joe 2014-10-23 15:53|| 2014-10-23 15:53|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm not sanguine about the use of serum. (Ducks)

Seriously, belief in witchcraft is alive and well, and when people hear that the space-suit doctors want your blood too ...

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