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Without Lucrative Market, Potential Ebola Vaccine Was Shelved for Years
New York Times ^ | October 23, 2014 | Michael Stravato

Posted on 10/23/2014 7:59:46 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister

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1 posted on 10/23/2014 7:59:46 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
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To: CorporateStepsister

Bush and the Republicans fault.


2 posted on 10/23/2014 8:02:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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To: CorporateStepsister
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.

And the source of those enormous costs is ... ?

3 posted on 10/23/2014 8:02:46 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To create and pay the salaries of the bureaucracy.


4 posted on 10/23/2014 8:03:46 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Convenient scapegoats.


5 posted on 10/23/2014 8:04:06 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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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!


6 posted on 10/23/2014 8:06:19 PM PDT by Voltage
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To: FlingWingFlyer

White male capitalists’ fault. /s


7 posted on 10/23/2014 8:06:39 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Soooo, what is the name of the company that’s been sitting on the vaccine? Democratic donor maybe?


8 posted on 10/23/2014 8:09:28 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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To: coloradan

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.


9 posted on 10/23/2014 8:12:06 PM PDT by purplelobster
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that’s why they’re now creating a market.


10 posted on 10/23/2014 8:12:08 PM PDT by willywill
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To: CorporateStepsister
Pretty much.

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11 posted on 10/23/2014 8:13:17 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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That is what some African countries are saying, too.


12 posted on 10/23/2014 8:18:50 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: CorporateStepsister

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


13 posted on 10/23/2014 8:19:13 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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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.


14 posted on 10/23/2014 8:21:27 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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"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!"

Exactly!

15 posted on 10/23/2014 8:23:48 PM PDT by QuisCustodiet1776 (Live free or die.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

WTF - BS. The UN should be able to fund this with all of their worldwide $wag.


16 posted on 10/23/2014 8:27:04 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Al Gore Jezzera needs to finish buying them out....


17 posted on 10/23/2014 8:28:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: CorporateStepsister

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.


18 posted on 10/23/2014 8:29:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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The New York Times should deliver their newspaper to everyone in Africa

It will make excellent hut wallpaper. Or garbage wrap.

19 posted on 10/23/2014 8:32:29 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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$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.


20 posted on 10/23/2014 8:33:25 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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