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The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has died, a Dallas hospital announced minutes ago.
Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who recently traveled from West Africa to Dallas, had been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas since Sept. 28.

It wasnt immediately known what would happen to his body, which could remain contagious for several days. Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call for the remains to be immediately shrouded in plastic and double-bagged in leak-proof bags at the hospital, then promptly cremated or buried in an airtight casket.

Duncans death comes four days after his condition was downgraded from serious to critical. Over the weekend, he had begun receiving brincidofovir, an experimental antiviral drug which recently gained emergency approval from the FDA.

Duncan, 42, is also the first person known to die of Ebola in the United States. The highly contagious virus has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa in 2014, the World Health Organization estimates.


Hopefully with his death, the CDC can look further into a cure. I know that sounds terrible, but oh well. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family.



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The CDC I'm sure has brought up points regarding cures before and after his death because the spread of Ebola seems inevitable. I'm not sure if they are the ones that research for cures or other pharmaceutical companies are. But on the topic of cures....

Norway to get world's last dose of Ebola cure


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So there is a "cure", but from what I see, there hasn't been a clinical study proving it's effectiveness. Even if it did, we are a long ways from mass producing it to be given to the public. On a more hopeful note, the CDC states there has been work done on creating a vaccine for Ebola. Hopefully they can pull through.

CDC wrote Two other companies, Tekmira and Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, receive funding from the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency and have therapeutic candidates for Ebola in early development. The Department of Defense is working with a company called Newlink to develop an Ebola vaccine candidate. BioCryst, with NIH support, is working to develop an antiviral drug to treat Ebola virus that is expected to begin Phase 1 testing later this year.
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Cokes wrote
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The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. has died, a Dallas hospital announced minutes ago.
Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who recently traveled from West Africa to Dallas, had been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas since Sept. 28.

It wasnt immediately known what would happen to his body, which could remain contagious for several days. Guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call for the remains to be immediately shrouded in plastic and double-bagged in leak-proof bags at the hospital, then promptly cremated or buried in an airtight casket.

Duncans death comes four days after his condition was downgraded from serious to critical. Over the weekend, he had begun receiving brincidofovir, an experimental antiviral drug which recently gained emergency approval from the FDA.

Duncan, 42, is also the first person known to die of Ebola in the United States. The highly contagious virus has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa in 2014, the World Health Organization estimates.


Hopefully with his death, the CDC can look further into a cure. I know that sounds terrible, but oh well. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family.



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The CDC I'm sure has brought up points regarding cures before and after his death because the spread of Ebola seems inevitable. I'm not sure if they are the ones that research for cures or other pharmaceutical companies are. But on the topic of cures....

Norway to get world's last dose of Ebola cure


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So there is a "cure", but from what I see, there hasn't been a clinical study proving it's effectiveness. Even if it did, we are a long ways from mass producing it to be given to the public. On a more hopeful note, the CDC states there has been work done on creating a vaccine for Ebola. Hopefully they can pull through.

CDC wrote Two other companies, Tekmira and Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, receive funding from the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency and have therapeutic candidates for Ebola in early development. The Department of Defense is working with a company called Newlink to develop an Ebola vaccine candidate. BioCryst, with NIH support, is working to develop an antiviral drug to treat Ebola virus that is expected to begin Phase 1 testing later this year.


France apparently cured someone with Ebola about a week ago. Haven't heard anything else from France since then though.
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Apparently the first Briton has died in Macedonia of Ebola
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Can we please just stop with the Ebola discussion. Like it's not that serious.
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Latency wrote Can we please just stop with the Ebola discussion. Like it's not that serious.


How is it not serious? Its not a little cold that you just wait to go, it kills you and if you catch it im sure that you would want a cure.
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Verisimilitude wrote
Latency wrote Can we please just stop with the Ebola discussion. Like it's not that serious.


How is it not serious? Its not a little cold that you just wait to go, it kills you and if you catch it im sure that you would want a cure.


I don't swap spit with anyone. So I wouldn't catch it.
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Very informative topic. This Ebola outbreak is more frightening than I previously thought. The first documented case of Ebola in the United States was in Dallas and I only live 45 minutes from Dallas. I believe the patient has passed away now, though.
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Ive recently started going to the gym
Ive worked out on my abs a few days ago but right now it hurts a lot when i try and sit down

Have i got ebola?

I live in West London btw
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TDK_Jr wrote
Verisimilitude wrote
Latency wrote Can we please just stop with the Ebola discussion. Like it's not that serious.


How is it not serious? Its not a little cold that you just wait to go, it kills you and if you catch it im sure that you would want a cure.


I don't swap spit with anyone. So I wouldn't catch it.


It's transferred through sweat too, much more potential for catching it.

Also, in relation to your first comment about it not being that serious, here's a quote from Dr. Christopher Dye, a worker for the World Health Organization.
"If current trends persist we would be seeing not hundreds of cases per week, but thousands of cases per week and that is terribly disturbing"

There's also this:
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I'm not one of those people who are going to start walking the streets with a doomsday sign, I think this is going to, eventually, be contained.
But acting like it isn't a huge problem is just plain ignorant.
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TDK_Jr wrote Can we please just stop with the Ebola discussion. Like it's not that serious.


How is this not serious? If not taken serious, this disease can take out a lot of people. Your ignorance right now is just making me scratch my damn head..
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