D'oh!!!

[Phlip]

Scientist accidentally injects Ebola into finger - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29914303)

Scientist accidentally injects Ebola into finger
45-year-old woman given experimental vaccine for deadly virus

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The 45-year-old scientist who accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used for injecting the Ebola virus into mice was treated in this quarantine unit at Hamburg University Hospital. Within 24 hours of the March 12 accident, an experimental vaccine that had never before been tried on humans was on its way via international courier from a lab in Canada.

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BERLIN - It's a nightmare scenario worthy of a sci-fi movie script: A scientist accidentally pricks 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.

[anthony240]

sounds like a scene straight out of Outbreak

[allntrlundrgrnd]

"Oh Shit"


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[I10cruiser]

damn that musk suck ass.. but its pretty tight having friends in high places

[dert420sx]

crazy! so they'll never really know if the vaccine works even though she survives?

[karl wasabi]

LOL. Stupid Bitch!!! Could have caused a damn epidemic.

[Flicktitty]

whooops.

smooooth.

[Phlip]

crazy! so they'll never really know if the vaccine works even though she survives?

No, because they aren't 100% sure she actually had it, only that she very much could have as a result of her own fuckup.

[mRclARK1]

sounds like a scene straight out of Outbreak

Here's irony for you. I'm sitting at home working on a paper for school... And that movie was JUST on TV. I saw that scene where the female doctor does the exact same thing not more than 45 minutes ago. haha

[karl wasabi]

Here's irony for you. I'm sitting at home working on a paper for school... And that movie was JUST on TV. I saw that scene where the female doctor does the exact same thing not more than 45 minutes ago. haha

That's not irony... :naw:

[mRclARK1]

That's not irony... :naw:

I guess in a strict sense it's not... I'm just morbid.

The girl in the movie lives... Hopefully the real life one does too.

[dert420sx]

No, because they aren't 100% sure she actually had it, only that she very much could have as a result of her own fuckup.

she should just take one for the team and poke herself again so the world will know for sure if the vaccine works.

and she'll be a martyr for science. :bowdown::dead:

[The Chad]

I just hope this doesn't end up like "I am Legend" and this lady turns into well....whatever those things were in that movie and then further infects everyone else. I think in that movie the originator of the disease had a "Cure" for cancer that eventually turned people into some kinda of Zombie.

[ESmorz]

That's not irony... :naw:

This is irony.

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[dert420sx]

I just hope this doesn't end up like "I am Legend" and this lady turns into well....whatever those things were in that movie and then further infects everyone else. I think in that movie the originator of the disease had a "Cure" for cancer that eventually turned people into some kinda of Zombie.

oh crap! you're onto something here. zombies are coming!

i see something like 28 days later happening

[speedgod^s13]

oh crap! you're onto something here. zombies are coming!

i see something like 28 days later happening

That's fucked up. You can run from regular zombies, because they are slow. Can't do that shit with the zombies from 28 days later. They fast as fuck!!! :bash:

[The Chad]

I'm taking up jogging now, and buying some more guns haha. I want to be a zombie killing machine!!! :)

[ayuaddict]

i think ill just buy a Porsche tank.

or something.

[Gnnr]

I remember watching a full documentary on the Ebola Virus and the original outbreak in school once. Scariest virus ever. Your dead in less than 3 weeks.

[Enna]

All this zombie talk... lol. I was just told like a day or two ago by my boss at work that they are making synthetic blood. If that doesn't cause zombies to happen, i dont know wtf will. So yeah.... moving to a secluded tropical island like.... now.