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.
I believe the value of the “wonder-drug” is zero.
You look at Africa and it’s marginal health care situation. Doctors and nurses don’t match up to US standard. You don’t see very many Ebola patients with IV solutions hooked up. Fever drugs in Africa? Few being used. Standard liquid foods that you’d have in the US? Rarely seen in Africa.
Yet, they get a 10-percent survivor rate. The media would make you think it’s 100-percent death rate but they squeeze ten percent of the folks, onto surviving. So this ought to make you think....just identifying it early and getting standard IV solutions, fever drugs, and liquids into it....will beat the thing, and give an American probably around 90-percent chance of living.
So this wonder-drug talk? It’s hyped up and bogus. They will pay tens of billions, for nothing.