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by jfoutz 4290 days ago
I'm from the american southwest, there's a kind of snake here who's effects of venom are remarkably similar to the effects of ebola. All the crazy regulation has been holding up any US research, but in northern mexico, a Doctor Stanley has been doing monkey trials. His unique combination of mineral oil seems to boost immune response, while the venom inures the cells to ebola's most harmful attack vectors.

I realize the people of Africa are very poor and can't really afford the scale of production necessary. Perhaps your country would be willing to help out with a few million dollars, I'm sure this snake oil would do some good.

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Don't listen to that charlatan, you would be much better investing the money in my range of anti-viral mist diffusers. I've had one running for a year now and nobody on my street has Ebola. It also seems to work against tigers.
You mean, a kind of oil made with snakes? A snake-oil?