ANT 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zmapp, Flu Season

• School: Emory University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 333
• Professor: Konner Melvin

Document Summary

Barry hewlett wrote about the anthropology of ebola. They had an ebola drug that was 100% effective in monkeys but wouldn"t commercialize th. Zmapp was first drug, given to the dude at emory. He got better but later studies showed th. His dad was health officer during influenza outbreak. They died bc fluid filled their lungs and they essentially drowned. It"s a human characteristic to do something even if its wrong (to treat a disease) Come from open air poultry farms in asia. The flu we get is when the virus in birds mixes w the virus in pigs. There is bird poop powder in the air in chin e them bc capitalism ed that it wasn"t effective rip ned china jesus ew. 10% of poultry workers are exposed to it. There is bird poop powder in the air in chin. Cant reproduce independently so it docks on an animal cell membrane in a lock and key fa.