EBOLA IS IN AMERICA

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Apparently there is no more anti-virus medicine. I could be misunderstanding this but it's my understanding they only had one or two doses and the missionary got one of them. Again, this is just my understanding and I may not have paid good enough attention to the story at the time but if that's true why in the world would they only have a couple doses of life saving medicine?

They tried a different experimental drug on Duncan but I think they just started it yesterday or the day before. He was probably too far gone at that point to say whether that drug would have helped him or not.

Why do they only have a couple of doses? Supply and demand. There was no demand in the US for that medication (and what, Africa's gonna buy it? Ha) until now. I heard the only people that were clamoring for it were the military and that was because they were concerned it might be used in some terrorist biological attack. They didn't have the funds (supposedly) because of the sequestration. So money. It always comes back to money.

I believe that the medic that is sick is also getting the same drug as Duncan received (not 100% sure about that--I know he's getting some experimental drug) and I also believe he's due to receive some blood transfusions from one of the doctors that recovered from the disease recently. His case was fortunately caught much earlier than Duncan's (and he's younger/healthier).

Of course now the question is why didn't Duncan get blood transfusions...I've heard it could be because there wasn't a match or because he was a black dude from Liberia and nobody cared about him anyway. Which is probably why Jesse Jackson is getting involved.