Ebola Lockdown

[SpiceMan]

A molecular biologist friend of mine who works for big pharma told me that its very difficult to develop a vaccine for a virus. There hasn't been a successful one since the 1950's.

[TroyinEwa/Perv]

And I would imagine it's much more difficult when those big checks keep showing up.

[Guest]

Don't joke about Ebola on a plane ....

 

http://www.irishtime...plane-1.1983405

[Specialist]

There are a whole slew of effective vaccines now for the well-known childhood diseases that used to be considered routine for everyone.

 

Measles, mumps, rubella ("German measles"), chicken pox (I lost a month of high school to chicken pox).

 

They didn't exist in the 1950s and 1960s.

[Guest]

http://www.cbsnews.c...ples-from-taxi/

 

Roadside bandits in Guinea stole a cooler containing bloodsamples that are believed to have Ebola, officials said Friday, warning of the risks and vowing tighter security measures for transport of such potentially contagious cargo.

 

The vehicle was transporting test tubes containing blood when the roadside robbery took place on the route from Kankan prefecture in central Guinea to a test site in Gueckedou, in the south, national health officials said. The bandits held up the minibus taxi carrying the samples from a suspected Ebola patient on Wednesday, said Guinea Red Cross press officer Faya Etienne Tolno. Why they took the blood samples is unknown.

 

Officials appealed on national radio for the thieves to return the samples. "We have informed the security services. If these thieves handle this blood, it will be dangerous," Dr. Barry Moumie, who heads patient care for the national Ebola response coordination committee, told The Associated Press. "I can assure you, however, that the sample-transportation procedures will now be strengthened to avoid such disappointments," he said.

 

Ebola, which has killed more than 5,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, is spread primarily by contact with infected bodily fluids including blood, feces and vomit.

[Coss]

"Why they took the blood samples is unknown

 

If these thieves handle this blood, it will be dangerous

 

Roadside bandits"

 

Use as a bio weapon?

[Coss]

One could mix with pig's blood and crop-dust it over I -S- I- S ?