Posted on 10/16/2014 8:21:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Israeli drug companies, such as Teva, are pretty good at producing imitation drugs quickly. Teva was truly disruptive to big pharma companies, since they often feared blockbuster drugs going off patent as Teva was ready and waiting with a quality generic imitation.
It’s not so surprising that what is bad for big pharma is good for the patient and the consumer, and now an Israeli biotech company named Protalix is ready to replenish supplies of the experimental Ebola vaccine, ZMapp.
The disease has already claimed the lives of 3,944, predominantly in Africa, but in the U.S., there has been one casualty and another one infected. The World Health Organization hoped to have a vaccine by November, but even if ZMapp can be available by the target date, supplies will be insufficient to meet requirements. However, the Times of Israel reports that Protalix can step in and produce as much ZMapp as is needed. In an interview with Channel 2, executive vice president of research and development at Protalix, Yossie Shaaltiel, said, “Today, our production capacity exceeds our needs, and we would certainly be happy to have our company produce the Ebola drug for them. We know how to do it effectively, in large quantities and in a relatively short period of time.”
I have a feeling BDS is going to be strangely silent about this outrage.
You Samartines worship what you do not know, we worship what we do know for salvation is from the Jews....John 4:22 (emphasis mine)
All of which is true.
Doesn’t make ZMapp a ‘vaccine’.
I don’t disagree with that statement.
Correct. The disease comes from the muslim world, possible solution from non-muslim world.
Gee, I wonder if the muslim world will be thankful to Israel for this? Nah, they’ll probably accuse them of planting the virus so that they could sell their product.
NO.....besides nothing will be done other than looking like something is being done....UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION....A FACT.
Definitely NOT a vaccine.
If you were to gather the same antibodies from Ebola survivors it would be exactly the same as Zmapp.
There are not enough Ebola survivors to produce Zmapp so they use manipulated tobacco plants to create the antibodies. Tobacco is good at manufacturing human compatible proteins.
Yup.
Bad journalism is literally killing us. Don’t get me started on editors. As far as I’m concerned, they don’t exist anymore.
Will the Jew-hating left give Israel credit?
Do it
I was just going to say the exact same thing.
vi is a really great editor.
Gee, I sure hope Israel can get the drugs out, what with the flight ban Obama issued from there and all?
Yes, but Ed is the standard...
No, they don't understand much of anything..
They don't understand basic economics.
They don't understand faith.
They don't understand Mathematics, Statistics, nor Physics.
Not much at all.
I would assume that is a rhetorical question.
Genius!!! The Muzzies won’t touch it.
I was thinking that too. How ironic it would be that salvation would come from Israel - again.
“Do journalists just not understand basic scientific terminology?”
My guess would be no. I once read somewhere that the vast majority of journalists were the C and D students in school.
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