Scientist accidentally injects Ebola into finger

[Jon Miller]

You remove the arm, not the finger.

JM

[Docfeelgood]

Second thought, why was she even fvcking around with this virus?

[The Mad Monk]

To develop an experimental vaccine?

[DaShi]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29914303/

BERLIN - It's a nightmare scenario worthy of a sci-fi movie script: A scientist accidentally ****** her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice.

But in this case, it really happened — to an unidentified 45-year-old woman in Germany.

Within hours of the accident on March 12, several of the scientist's colleagues held a trans-Atlantic telephone conference to map out a way to save her life.

Within 24 hours, an experimental vaccine — never before tried on humans — was on its way to Germany from a lab in Canada.

Within 40 hours, the at-risk scientist was injected with the vaccine.

So far, so good. If the woman is still healthy on April 2, she can consider herself safe.

It's not a 100-percent certainty the researcher was actually infected with Ebola.

If she doesn't become infected, scientists may not know if it was the vaccine, or luck.


OMG!

Must be nice being white.

[Felch]

It is, DaShi, it really is. Our lives are just worth more. It's very nice.

[Elok]

Now now, none of that. African Ebola victims get a full three-fifths of the dose this lady got.

[Combat Ingrid]

If she doesn't become infected, scientists may not know if it was the vaccine, or luck.

Crappy experiment, then. And where the hell is the positive control?

[Wiglaf]

If this happened to me I would use a bat to suck out the Ebola and then send the bat to an ex girlfriend, who would contract ebola when she ate the bat and fed it to her infernal cat Sandy, who has been too good to bury or even hide her own poop for three miserable years.

[Krill]

Just so long as you then feed the cat to your boyfriend, it's all good.

[Heresson]

Must be nice being white.

How do You know she was white? She could have been an immigrants' daughter.

[Sirotnikov]

Must be nice being white.

Must be nice being a *****.

a) heresson makes a good point

b) the life of a scientist researching the disease, is worth a lot by default, because she holds the potential to curing thousands of people.

[ZEE]

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[DaShi]

How do You know she was white? She could have been an immigrants' daughter.

I didn't. I was just trolling.