Bush and the Republicans fault.
And the source of those enormous costs is ... ?
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!
Soooo, what is the name of the company that’s been sitting on the vaccine? Democratic donor maybe?
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
WTF - BS. The UN should be able to fund this with all of their worldwide $wag.
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.
Why didn’t African nations develop Ebola vaccine?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
What, I consider that a success!
Producing a product that no one would buy; that would be a failure.
What possible purpose could there be for producing a product aimed at people that could not afford to pay the cost driven price?
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...
Why should we waste time,money and energy finding cures and vaccines for which there was no need? Doing that would take away from efforts that needed to have been made.