To do almost anything worthwhile you now have to leave the US.
SAD!
Without those studies, how are we supposed to know if a drug or vaccine actually works? Just because a drug cures an animal of a disease does not mean it will do the same in humans. There are many drugs that work very well in rodents or monkeys that do nothing for humans.
There is a big problem in trying to test if Ebola drugs or vaccines work in humans. The problem is that we cannot expose people to Ebola to see if a drug or vaccine works. Politics and funding have nothing to do with this.
My supervisor thinks we should test these things on prisoners. I'm sure many people would agree with him. However, ethics committees (and probably laws) would prevent such testing.
Because the government REALLY blocks medicine that can cure deadly viruses. What a bunch of nonsense. If that were the case, then why even cure anything?
“This is an interesting commentary on how big government is basically dysfunctional. “
Decades ago I worked for the company that built 80% of the world’s civilian aircraft crash recorders, the “black boxes.” (They were actually orange and yellow with black stripes.) We needed to go from carbon resistors to metal film. It was a no-risk engineering change which improved the unit’s producibility and reliability. For nearly a year the FCC failed to approve the change. In frustration, as we were out of carbon resistors, I called our permanent employee at the FCC’s building. He told me that each Monday he’d start walking the change around the building for signature, but frequently, the people who needed to sign were not there that week. Around Thursday people who had signed already would hunt him up and look at the signature sheet. If it wasn’t approved they’d take their signatures off the sheet. This is because if there was a crash over the weekend and the cause was traced to a resistor they didn’t want their names on a document that would have affected a change unless everybody had signed it off. This was the case with everything we submitted to the government.
I concluded that the purpose of federal agencies was to protect themselves and their members, not the public.
“diagnostic startup Nanobiosym has an iPhone-sized device that can accurately detect Ebola and other infectious diseases in less than an hour.”
That is great as long as it works without many false negatives or false positives. That should be put into effect immediately, since either way it is no risk, as long as accuracy levels are clearly declared.
” synthetic vaccine viruses for influenza and other infectious diseases in only four days. ... except that the Food and Drug Administration’s insistence on randomized studies and endless demands for more data means firms have to spend millions on paperwork instead of producing medicines. “
Wow. You apparently haven’t read much about the dangers of vaccinations. Remember vaccinations are for infecting those NOT infected. A big health problem in this country is vaccinations that should NEVER have gotten approval. Read a few books on the topic from both sides of the argument.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Ask them if they want the liability for going to market without FDA approval.
Behind by choice
Stupidity by agenda driven example is called "OPEN BORDERS" !
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...