Posted on 08/10/2014 7:05:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Clinical trials of a preventative vaccine for the Ebola virus made by British pharma company GlaxoSmithKline may begin next month and made available by 2015, the World Health Organization said on Saturday.
"We are targeting September for the start of clinical trials, first in the United States and certainly in African countries, since that's where we have the cases," Jean-Marie Okwo Bele, the WHO's head of vaccines and immunisation, told French radio.
He said he was optimistic about making the vaccine commercially available. "We think that if we start in September, we could already have results by the end of the year.
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“Just after the nick of time.”
it’s escaped a country no one cared about..
Now that it’s in “rich” countries someone jumped.
Sure got that right. Wonder why nobody gets why it’s now on the fast track.
I'd say this will be similar to the small pox or polio vaccine.
The doctor was also treated with a blood transfusion from a 14 year old which had survived.
Just something I noted three weeks ago via several networks. They brought out three current or former big-wigs of the CDC. Each commented in the beginning of the interview that they hadn’t really experimented much around Ebola because there was a fear that it’d be turned around as a weapon. Then at some point, the reporter in each case....asked so you have this serum for Ebola, and they responded there was one.
Naturally, you’d sit and wonder....if they hadn’t gotten into Ebola much....how’d you develop the serum...but the reporters were never bright enough to catch that part of the deal.
I suspect that somewhere in the 1960s...a US lab in the central neverlands of Africa had some kind of disease they had developed and the monkeys for the lab escaped into the jungle. This serum? It’s been around in some form for a decade or more....till the right point where it’s of some value. You can figure the treatment deal....will cost at least $20,000 and make some company rich down the road as Ebola comes up hourly in the US within six months.
its escaped a continent
and started to affect many others....
and yes, it has moved into the cornerstone nation of the free west.
Well, free until an obamanite turns it into an Africa.
RE: a 14 year old which had survived.
Is the boy now IMMUNE from the ebola virus?
Good news.
But, just in case it doesn’t work, has anybody got a map to Hershel Greene’s farm?
It all comes down to supply and demand .....Econ 101 my friend
This will go over big in Africa.
We’re from America, and we’re here to help you.
PS Obama sent me.
Is he immune? I would say at least for a time. Tingle those antibodies...and I believe they'll tingle easier the next time. But as the years progress, they tire...almost like it takes a smaller group of antibodies so why exist...and they deplete themselves.
Almost totally depleted, years later, you have lost that immunity.
Link also posted here: Ebola Surveillance Thread
"We are targeting September for the start of clinical trials, first in the United States"
So, the WHO is now in charge of the FDA?
The demand side will exist of CURRENT WORLD POPULATION - DATE OF VACINE AVAILABILITY DEATHS / DAY = (SUPPLY POPULATION REMAINING - DISTRIBUTION PROCESS/DAY)
One difficulty with testing the ebola vaccine compared to polio is that enough people were catching polio that you could do a double blind test giving some people vaccine and some a placebo and then compare infection rates between the groups. Since ebola is deadly, but not very common (even in Africa) it would be difficult to get a statistically meaningful test without actually intentionally infecting both the test and control groups to see if there is a difference in infection rates. Without that, ebola is going to go from the petri dish to general human use without a wide scale effectiveness test.
Thousands of school children were the field test for the polio vaccine.
Just what I was saying. Lots of people got polio. You could take a group, give some a vaccine and others a placebo. Then check the polio rates in both groups, knowing that without the vaccine some percentage of them would be expected to catch polio in the next year. Ebola isn't widespread enough to expect a statistically significant percentage of people to get it.
Let's say that the polio infection rate of people who had not yet been infected with polio was 1% per year. If the placebo group had a 1% rate of infection in the next year while the vaccinated group's rate was 0.05% you could say that the polio vaccine was 95% effective (with some confidence interval based on the number of people in the test). If the ebola infection rate is 0.001% it is much more difficult to tell if a vaccine is effective unless you intentionally infect people after they've gotten the vaccine. And if you do this you better be @($@* sure that the vaccine is effective before you use it.
Another way of doing it is testing it on groups more likely to catch it (like doctors). You could also do a test where the control group is from before the vaccine was invented, but that runs into more problems of external effects like better infection control being used at the same time the vaccine is tested, so you don't know whether a lower infection rate is from the vaccine or from the changed handling procedures.
Wait until the FDA gets involved. They’ll make you happy.
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