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A common feature in Ebola-stricken West Africa is buckets
of chlorine for people to disinfect with. The disease is
ravaging West Africa and will keep ravaging parts of the
world that don't have a first-world health system (basically
more than half the planet) until we can slow/stop it
somehow.
There are promising treatments like ZMapp but
they are only able to manufacture doses in the tens until
2015.
My idea is to start with ZMapp and crowdsource donations
to buy the company and open-source all the processes to
manufacture said drug. This wouldn't be easy as the drug
is created by growing tobacco so you'd have to buy out
some R.J. Reynolds patents and perhaps trade secrets.
But enough money would talk (and it would even be good
PR for R.J. Reynolds).
I'm actually not sure if this would get the drug to market
faster but as a beneficiary of open-source software I think
it's worth a try.
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Lots of dead people, but with blonde hair... |
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Government licensing of Zmapp, if it's effective, might be better managed than outright ownership, but [+] |
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Sp. "Der" ("Das" is the nominative neuter), but well done on getting the
Umlaut right. |
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Der Führer would probably have preferred Zyklon-B; you're probably
thinking of Professor Fritz Haber, a leading proponent of chemical
warfare, and clearly not a very nice man at all. |
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