Posted on 05/14/2018 3:45:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Among the dead were three health-care workers. Health officials are following up with nearly 400 people identified as contacts of Ebola patients.
The global health agency announced last week its plans to send the vaccine, developed in 2016 by the pharmaceutical company Merck. Health officials hope that the vaccine, which was given to people in Guinea in West Africa during a trial in 2015, could be a game-changer in preventing Ebola from spreading, The Washington Post’s Siobhán O’Grady wrote last week. Among the 5,837 people who received the vaccine, called rVSV-ZEBOV, no one came down with Ebola 10 days after vaccination.
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Wonder what Merck charges for this new drug which took 15 minutes to create.
Well, that’s no picnic.
NOT GOOD, but thanks for posting.
Life/health BUMP!
Ironic how Africans are willing to die trying to get to America while the Africans who have been here forever loathe the place.
And there is no one on this forum who is more critical of "Big Pharma" than I am.
Let's hope that there is some positive results from the vaccine trials.
And let's pick more deserving target for criticism. There are certainly a large number to choose from.
“Bring ‘em here”
— Obama
There goes my gorilla tour.
Its Africa, happens all the time.
Dont ship any here, treat them there.
An American blacks call the place “Mother Africa’’.
Oh, jeez, not with the animals . . . again. Isn’t that how aids got started?
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