ebola
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Everyone Can Relax. The White House Is Very Close to a Vaccine for…Ebola?
The White House wanted to clear up a few things to set everyone at ease: First, whales are not mating with elephants so the reports of “whalephants” are false. Also, reports of quicksand deaths have been grossly misreported as the last person to die from quicksand was Wile E. Coyote. And, when the president said…
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Ebola Vaccine Is 100 Percent Effective: New Study
In some really great news to end the year, an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus has proven 100 percent effective in trials, according to a new study reported in the Lancet medical journal Thursday. Since the end of 2013, Ebola, a highly infectious and deadly virus, has killed more than 11,300 West Africans, including many…
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Ebola, Hoes, and Mixtapes: The Blackest Thing We've Ever Seen This Week, Redux
Every now and then you see something so hilarious you hope and pray that its true. This is how I felt today when a friend of mine sent me a link this Tumblr with the following exchange. It turned me into a detective to do as much research as possible into it. 1. It’s real.…
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Ebola Is In America Now. So Yeah. Fuck This, I'm Moving To Canada
The more you hear about Ebola, the more it sounds like something conjured in a Guillermo Del Toro adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel. It’s so antagonistic and the effect it has on the body is so grotesque that it’s almost cinematic. It, to be plain, fucks people the fuck up worse than the most fucked up fucked…
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Ebola Patients Cured By New Serum…Which Means We're All Going To Die
Look, as optimistic as I want to be about this new treatment for Ebola, we’ve all seen enough post-apocalyptic horror movies to know how it starts: 1. A fucked up but manageable disease kills a bunch of humans. 2. We scramble to find a cure. 3. We find a cure that “works.” 4. Except the…