Posted on 10/23/2014 7:59:46 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
GALVESTON, Tex. — Almost a decade ago, scientists from Canada and the United States reported that they had created a vaccine that was 100 percent effective in protecting monkeys against the Ebola virus. The results were published in a respected journal, and health officials called them exciting. The researchers said tests in people might start within two years, and a product could potentially be ready for licensing by 2010 or 2011.
It never happened. The vaccine sat on a shelf. Only now, with nearly 5,000 people dead from Ebola and an epidemic raging out of control in West Africa, is the vaccine undergoing the most basic safety tests in humans.
Its development stalled in part because Ebola was rare, and until now outbreaks had infected only a few hundred people at a time. But experts also acknowledge that the lack of follow-up on such a promising candidate reflects a broader failure to produce medicines and vaccines for diseases that afflict poor countries. Most drug companies have resisted spending the enormous sums needed to to develop products useful mostly to poor countries with little ability to pay for them.
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Bush and the Republicans fault.
And the source of those enormous costs is ... ?
To create and pay the salaries of the bureaucracy.
Convenient scapegoats.
The New York Times should deliver their newspaper to everyone in Africa, even if they can’t pay for a subscription. Its the right thing to do!
White male capitalists’ fault. /s
Soooo, what is the name of the company that’s been sitting on the vaccine? Democratic donor maybe?
The economic philosophy of the NYT has yielded a stock price of $52 per share in 2002 and $13 per share in 2014. Just a matter of time before Pinch completely bankrupts the paper. Staffers are leaving in droves.
that’s why they’re now creating a market.
That is what some African countries are saying, too.
When did other nation’s problems become our problem? I have a heart but cripes it’s time for other nations to put on their big boy britches suck it up and do things for themselves. We’ve been trying to help these countries for decades with the “hope” they will stop spreading aids thru unprotected sex....stop procreaging for children they cannot feed...and stop spreading disease thru cleaner hygiene....I’m getting sick and tired of asshat liberal rag blaming big business and the US for the world’s woes....it’s high time these Damn countries take accountability for themselves....ok rant over
I’m in full agreement; we need to take care of ourselves and second, they wanted independence. With independence comes the importance of being self sufficient.
Exactly!
WTF - BS. The UN should be able to fund this with all of their worldwide $wag.
Al Gore Jezzera needs to finish buying them out....
That old vaccine was made for Simian use; made to cure Monkeys, vs Human Beings. This vaccine may be a helpful starting point, but I would presume we will still need a vaccine invented for Human use against today’s strain of Ebola. I think there are four or five basic kinds of Ebola, which sometimes presents as the Marburg virus.
I have been hearing that Ebola continues to reconstitute itself, with newer strains becoming even more contagious than the first known strains. This won’t likely be the big Silver Bullet we need to kill that virus dead.
It will make excellent hut wallpaper. Or garbage wrap.
$1.5 billion to develop and market a new vaccine?
But UN had no problem raising $5 billion for Islamic terrorists in Gaza.
Its all about priorities.
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