Experimental Ebola Drug ZMapp Made Available for Priest in Spain
Expermental Ebola drug ZMapp has been made available to Spanish medical authorities, who retrieved the medicine from Geneva for use in the treatment of a priest stricken with Ebola who was airlifted to Spain for medical care.
News stories are reporting that permission to make the dose available was given by the manufacturer MAPP pharmaceuticals. The medical aid organization MSF (Doctors Without Borders) helped in the transaction.
Press reports last week claimed that Nigerian officials had asked about the availability of the drug and were told that no doses were available for use in West African patients.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 11, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Doctors without borders Ebola experimental MSF Nigeria Spain spanish priest ZMAPP Source Type: blogs
Patrick Sawyer Knowingly Spread Ebola to Nigeria
News storiess coming out of Africa are reporting that naturalized American citizen Patrick Sawyer knew he was infected with Ebola while in Liberia and, disregarding the danger to others, evaded the authorities monitoring him in an attempt to reach the United States.
Sawyer became ill on a flight to Nigeria on his way to America and came into physical contact with approximately 70 people. To date, one nurse in this group has died and eight others are ill from Ebola transmitted by Sawyer.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 10, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Medical News Wire Ebola Liberia Nigeria Patrick sawyer spread Source Type: blogs
Experimental Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s in Mice
An experimental drug has been shown to reverse Alzheimer’s type learning deficits in mice. The study was done by Yale University’s Dr. Paul Lombroso and published in PLoS Biology.
The drug was found by screening 150,000 potential inhibitors of the protein striatal enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase (STEP.) Eight compounds were selected for testing with the drug dubbed TC-2153 showing the most pronounced effect.
The researchers will next try to duplicate their results in rats and higher non-primate animals.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 9, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Neurology Alzheimer's inhibitor paul lombroso reverse deficits STEP Yale University Source Type: blogs
Sarepta Therapeutics Has Experimental Ebola Drug Available for Use
Sarepta Therapeutics has experimental Ebola drug available for use claims CEO Chris Garabedian. The drug, dubbed AVI-7537 works against the VP24 protein in the Ebola virus organism.
The drug has been tested for safety in a Phase I clinical trial. The manufacturer claims that if a request was made and the appropriate clearances were granted by government regulators, they could have AVI-7537 on the ground in West Africa within one week in sufficient quantity to start treating significant numbers of patients.
Ebola patients often experience hemorrhaging from the eyes, skin, mouth, and rectum. Patients most commonly die of mul...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 9, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease 7537 AVI Ebola experimental drug phase I sarepta VP24 Source Type: blogs
Experimental Ebola Drug Tekmira Cleared by FDA for Additional Study
Experimental Ebola drug Tekmira has been cleared by the United States Food and Drug Administration for possible use in the recent outbreak raging across Africa.
Tekmira is one of three possible anti-Ebola drugs that are being considered as possible antidotes. A small phase I clinical trial of Tekmira in the last year was halted due to safety concerns when the drug was given at high doses.
Ebola is a viral hemmorhagic disease marked by hemorrhage from the mouth, anus, skin, and eyes and multi-system organ failure including the heart, liver, kidneys, and lungs.
Nurses and physicians caring for Ebola patients are at risk of c...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 8, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease antidote drug Ebola experimental Mark Murray study tekmira Source Type: blogs
Doctors Without Borders Nurse Monia Sayah Talks Ebola
Doctors Without Borders Nurse Monia Sayah talks Ebola and her experiences in Guinea. In this interview she discusses the eleven weeks she spent in the field working with other nurses and physicians and the extraordinary steps she took to prevent contracting Ebola.
Staff of humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders
To date no member of Doctors Without Borders has contracted Ebola, which can cause liver, kidney, cardiac, and pulmonary failure, as well as uncontrollable hemorrhage from the skin, eyes, mouth, and rectum.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 8, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Ebola guinea monia sayah nurse physicians prevent ebola transmission Source Type: blogs
Meat Allergy from Tick Bites on the Increase
Meat allergy from tick bites is on the increase. Allergists all over the South and Eastern seaboard are reporting an increasing number of cases of patients who develop a severe meat allergy after being bitten by ticks.
Lone star ticks appear to be the tick species most likely to transmit the allergy, but other ticks types are also suspected.
Lone star tick
The allergy was first described in an academic journal by allergist Dr. Scott Commins at the University of Virginia in 2011. Since then, hundreds of cases have been diagnosed on Long Island and across the mid-Atlantic states.
Of interest to allergists is that the allergy...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 8, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Medical News Wire alpha gal Georgette Simmons lone-star tick Louise Danzig meat allergy Robert Valent Scott Commins ticks Source Type: blogs
Can Ebola Be Transmitted By Contaminated Money?
While Ebola is readily killed by using standard hospital disinfectants, the Ebola virus is known to live for up to two weeks outside of the body on non-disinfected surfaces.
For instance, epidemiologists have tracked cases in Uganda where the disease was spread by multiple persons using the same blanket over several days
One concern among health officials is the possibility of Ebola transmission on currency being handled in communities where the use of credit cards is non-existent.
If people are afraid to handle or exchange money, the ramifications for local communities are devastating. This would bring a halt to most dai...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 6, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Ebola exchange money transmission Source Type: blogs
Controversy is Growing Over Who Gets Ebola Secret Serum?
Contoversy is growing over who gets Ebola secret serum. Many African leaders, health officials, and citizens are outraged that an experimental “secret” serum called ZMAPP was made available to Dr. Kent Brantly and nurse Nancy Whitebol in an attempt to fend off the deadly Ebola virus.
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Many critical of this distribution point out that over 60 African doctors and nurses fighting the disease have perished from contracted Ebola infections without the drug being offered on an experimental basis.
Now, three prominent Ebola experts are calling for experimental dr...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 6, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease africans doctor Ebola kent brantly MAPP Nancy Whitebol Nigerian nurse Peter piot secret serum vaccines WHO ZMAPP Source Type: blogs
Kent Brantly, MD, First US Physician with Ebola
Kent Brantly, MD, has contracted the Ebola virus while on a Christian Medical Mission in West Africa. He is now recovering in Emory University Hospital after receiving two doses of experimental serum.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 5, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Ebola kent brantly medical mission west africa Source Type: blogs
Ebola Deaths In Africa Being Under Reported
Ebola deaths in Africa are being under reported, claims a physician on the ground in West Africa. His estimation is at least 50% more people have died than the 887 reported by the World Health Organization as of today.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 5, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Hematology Infectious Disease deaths Ebola physician west africa world health organization Source Type: blogs
Saudi Arabia Ebola Testing Underway on Patient
Saudi Arabia Ebola testing is underway for a man who returned from West Africa and is now showing signs of a viral hemorrhagic fever.
He is reportedly in critical condition and is under strict isolation after the World Health Organization recommended obtaining samples to test for the Ebola virus. He has been ruled out for Dengue fever.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 5, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease dengue Ebola hemorrhagic fever Saudi Arabia viral Source Type: blogs
Can Herbs Help Stop Ebola
For a discussion of which herbs might be effective against Ebola. There currently is no cure using conventional drugs and there is no vaccine.
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Source: Inside Surgery - August 4, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Uncategorized cure Ebola herbs stop vaccine Source Type: blogs
Can Acupuncture Help Stop Ebola?
Stimulation of acupuncture points by some other modality will not kill the Ebola virus. It can be used however to help support the body’s organ systems and heighten the body’s immune defenses.
Needles should not be used to puncture the skin in patients with hemorrhagic diseases. However, the points can be accessed by placing high gauss magnets on the points and leaving them in place for several days
All points listed below should be stimulated bilaterally except where indicated.:
Large intestine 10 and 11
kidney 3
kidney 27
bladder 60
heart 3
governor vessel 14
kidney 9
large instestine 15
Left
stomach chi ...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease acupuncture cure Ebola kidney large intesting magnets meridian needles stomach Source Type: blogs
Ebola Health Care Workers Need to Double Glove
Although we are not participating in the care of those stricken with Ebola, we are watching with alarm multiple news stories showing healthcare workers wearing only one pair of usually ill-fitting non-sterile gloves touching infected patients.
This should never be done when trying to protect from exposure to bodily fluids. Numerous published studies have shown that medical gloves even without a noticeable break or tear have about an 8% rate of loss of integrity, thus providing a route for fluids to reach the wearer’s skin.
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In fact, news video of Dr. Brantly whe...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 2, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Ebola healthcare workers prevention protection Source Type: blogs
