Ebola in the US

[LongBlade]

Worst Job Ever? -- Ebola Fluid Test Gatherer

Star's already filled that job.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Hoo boy.

An Ebola survivor has been quarantined in India after his semen tested positive for the virus, health officials there have announced.

The 26-year-old man, an Indian national, traveled to New Delhi from Liberia on November 10, almost two months after he was hospitalized in the West African nation after showing symptoms of the illness, India's health ministry said in a statement.

He was released from the Liberian hospital on September 30 with documents declaring him free of clinical signs linked to Ebola, the ministry added.

As a precautionary measure, Indian authorities carried out tests on his body fluids, which confirmed traces of the virus in his semen, the statement said.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/world/asia/india-ebola-semen/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

That's not really new.  Earlier reports said they found that ebola could remain viable as an STD as much as 70 days after the incubation period.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Holy crap, so you are saying somebody with the means to pay for a globe trot could spread it to hookers everywhere. I think they call that f*cking pandemonium.

[LongBlade]

Holy crap, so you are saying somebody with the means to pay for a globe trot could spread it to hookers everywhere. I think they call that f*cking pandemonium.

Agreed.

We're relying on people who (mostly) are still trying to learn to use condoms to stem HIV to stop this outbreak? Suddenly it seems like the odds have gotten worse with this thing.

[Staggerwing]

Purchases of shares in condom manufacturer stock will be swelling.

[LongBlade]

^ Good idea.

[GDS_Starfury]

Purchases of shares in condom manufacturer stock will be swelling.

I see what you did there.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Purchases of shares in condom manufacturer stock will be swelling.

Which manufacturer will get on top?

[Gusington]

 :o

[LongBlade]

Some promising news.

Researchers say an experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe and has triggered signs of immune protection in the first 20 volunteers to test it.

According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the vaccine is designed to spur the immune system's production of anti-Ebola antibodies. Some of those given the vaccine developed antibodies within four weeks of getting the shots at the National Institutes of Health. Half of the test group received a higher-dose shot, and those people produced more antibodies.

The study also found that some people also developed a different set of virus-fighting immune cells, called T cells. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci  calls both types of immune responses "a promising factor."

source: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/11/26/ebola-vaccine-seems-safe-in-first-stage-testing-researchers-say/?intcmp=latestnews

[Martok]

Cool.  You gotta love science when it does something good.  :) 

[Barthheart]

Cool.  You gotta love science when it does something good.  :)

When does science do bad things?  ???

[GDS_Starfury]

what was that Japanese bio unit in WW2?

[BanzaiCat]

what was that Japanese bio unit in WW2?

Unit 731.

Otherwise known as "Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army."

[Staggerwing]

what was that Japanese bio unit in WW2?

There were also those hypothermia death experiments performed by Nazis at one of the camps. The data was captured by the Allies at the end of the war and may have contributed to the survival of downed pilots due to better post-war flight gear but the experiments themselves were just evil.