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'Promising' Ebola vaccine to go into trials - and it could be available by the end of the year
Daily Mail ^
| 28 August 2014
| Jenny Hope for the Daily Mail
Posted on 08/28/2014 11:07:23 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister
Britons are to be the first in the world to test a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus.
Altogether 60 healthy volunteers will be given the vaccine next month in a trial led by Oxford University scientists.
If the vaccine performs as well in humans as in monkeys, the trial will be extended to 80 people in The Gambia and in Mali.
The entire trial programme is being fast-tracked – subject to ethical approval – with the intention of using the vaccine in people at high risk in West Africa early next year.
Latest figures show that more than 1,550 people have died from the virus, with more than 3,000 confirmed cases - mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: approval; ebola; ebolavaccine; ethical; gambia; guinea; healthy; humans; humantesting; liberia; mali; medicine; monkeys; nih; oxforduniversity; scientists; sierraleone; test; uk; vaccine; virus; volunteers; westafrica
To: CorporateStepsister
Amazing how fast things can move sometimes.
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posted on
08/28/2014 11:14:44 AM PDT
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: CorporateStepsister
"Britons are to be the first in the world to test a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus"
Good choice. You know, for just in case things don't go too well with the testing:
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posted on
08/28/2014 11:17:50 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: CorporateStepsister
Britons are to be the first in the world to test a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus.
Just how many Britons (living in England I assume), get exposed to Ebola? Why wouldn't they test it in Africa?
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posted on
08/28/2014 11:25:51 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: DonaldC
That's available to the Britons.
The FDS will take another seven years to approve its use in the United States.
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posted on
08/28/2014 11:37:30 AM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: CorporateStepsister
Four months after that it will be mandated by your kid’s school. (sarc off)
To: DonaldC
Well the vaccine might kill you.
Ebola will.
I’ll take the vaccine.
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posted on
08/28/2014 12:03:03 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: CorporateStepsister
Maybe it will be as effective as the other one that was rushed to the scene.
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posted on
08/28/2014 12:33:47 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: oh8eleven
They vaccinate Britons with the new drug then expose them to Ebola to see if it works. You can do that in Reykjavik or South Georgia.
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posted on
08/28/2014 12:35:22 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/28/2014 1:21:30 PM PDT
by
SisterK
To: arthurus
then expose them to Ebola to see if it works. Vaccines produce an immune response that can be compared to the survivors blood antibodies. No need to expose anyone.
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posted on
08/28/2014 2:05:00 PM PDT
by
palmer
(This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
To: oh8eleven
get exposed to Ebola? Vaccines can be tested without exposing anyone to a live virus.
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posted on
08/28/2014 2:06:12 PM PDT
by
palmer
(This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
To: CorporateStepsister; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
08/28/2014 7:04:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
(If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/29/2014 12:58:08 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
09/01/2014 11:28:54 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: CorporateStepsister
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posted on
09/01/2014 12:09:23 PM PDT
by
fatima
(Free Hugs Today :))
To: Smokin' Joe
To: Alamo-Girl
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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posted on
09/01/2014 7:51:34 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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