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Experimental, Untested Ebola Cure -- "ZMapp" -- Appears to Work, SometimesThe first two doses of an experimental serum created to treat Ebola went to American missionaries. And, as you probably already know -- they don't have any of the drug left for sending to Africa. Mapp Biopharmaceutical said Monday its supply has been exhausted after fulfilling the request of a West African country. (It did not name the country). Kentucky BioProcessing, which manufacturers a version of the drug, is working to increase production of ZMapp, but the process will take several months, company spokesman David Howard told CNN last week. There's an ethical question here about permitting the use of an untested drug on people -- but I think an easily answered one, given that there is no known cure for Ebola and it has a kill-rate of, what, at least 75% in this latest outbreak? WHO has approved the use of this untested serum on people (to the extent we have any of it on hand). Ebola raises another ethical concern -- that about the police power of any state to detain you, even lock you up, without trial, without jury, without wrongdoing. Just because they suspect you may be sick-- and could potentially infect dozens if not quarantined. [G]iven the deadly nature of the Ebola virus, and the popular worry it’s likely to engender, one can expect the CDC and health authorities to pull out all the stops. The response could include invocation of the CDC's evolving quarantine authorities. Looking at the situation in Liberia -- where people are covertly disposing of relatives killed by Ebola, rather than inform the government they may have been infected -- it occurs to me that people wind up being willing vectors of infection, essentially in league with an epidemic, in symbiosis with it, evangelists for disease, even, just because no one wants to be quarantined, especially with other people who may be sick. Nevermind terrorists who may see this as a weapon. "For the safety of the community" is the bedrock justification for the state's large police power -- and it is a little scary, even if absolutely necessary.
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