I had nothing to do with the cure for Ebola.

[KamaAina]

[closeupready]

1. lol - God is an old white guy with a beard?

Does he wear a toga and float in the sky behind the clouds?

[valerief]

2. Yeah, he just created Ebola.

[KamaAina]

3. DUzy!

[merrily]

4. Well......

Technically, there is no medical cure for ebola. The body has to cure itself. To a believer, that would be God. The trick with ebola is just to keep the patient alive long enough to allow the body to do its own thing .

Besides, if you are a believer, you would attribute the existence of the doctors and scientists to God as well. And, in this case, a doctor was the patient who attributed his recovery to prayers of well-wishers, a God who answers prayers and who worked through the medical team to answer prayers.

As I posted in the religion forum much earlier today, unlike us humans, religion has had thousands of years to come up with an answer for everything that is a threat to its success.

But, sure, the cartoon is cute.

[longship]

5. There is no cure for Ebola.

There is only treatment for the symptoms, which may help one survive. There are some experimental vaccines, but they have only been tested rigorously in animal models, not human Ebola. That means that there is no rigorous data to show whether they are effective in humans.

True, the two patients at Emory received experimental treatments, but it was not blinded, there was no control group, and it was two patients. That means that there is no way to determine whether their recoveries came from the experimental treatment or just the extra care they received.

Again, there is no known cure for Ebola.

[Delmette]

6. Yep.

I was thinking along that line all day yesterday. The doctors, nurses, lab techs and everyone else just had to stand there and smile.

I totally understand that they are Christians and god is the center of their life, but couldn't they take a break and give credit where credit is do?

[RoccoR5955]

7. You got that all wrong.

It was the Flying Spaghetti Monster who was responsible.
Don't you know that He boiled for your sins?
Arrgh, and R'Amen!