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The ethics panel, made up of researchers, ethicists, and patient safety advocates, reached consensus that under certain circumstances in this outbreak, "it is ethical to offer unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects, as potential treatment or prevention".
Food industry leaders said trace-back systems had worked in this outbreak; it was just that tomatoes were the wrong target, they said.
Both Besser and Sebelius reiterated what has become the mantra during this outbreak: It's a rapidly changing situation.
Although worthy of more energy to contain and resolve this outbreak, it would be far wiser to extend compassionate treatment than to overreact with panic.
Civen said that even if L.A. County officials were to decide that all residents should be vaccinated against meningitis during this outbreak, it's likely that few people would actually seek out the shot.
To confirm the etiological agent of this outbreak, it was essential to reproduce the disease by experimental infection of laying ducks with BYDV-byd1 strain.
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Thus, while this article cannot claim to present an objective depiction of "what really happened" during this outbreak, I am confident that it nonetheless gives a broadly accurate picture of some of the key events.
And according to the firm that discovered this new outbreak, it could use a lesson in teamwork.
There had been "unanimous agreement among the experts that in the special circumstances of this Ebola outbreak it is ethical to offer unregistered treatments," said Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director-general of WHO, at a press conference today in Geneva, Switzerland.
While the DRC is the first country outside West Africa to confirm Ebola in this particular outbreak, it is where the virus was first discovered in 1976 when it was known as Zaire (alongside a simultaneous infection in Sudan).
"If there is any kind of blessing from this Ebola outbreak, it's that we need to stop making excuses regarding preparedness". States with designated Ebola treatment hospitals have led the country in hospital preparedness.
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