15-10-2014, 03:51 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I heard an interview with a researcher on the radio a few weeks ago. She said there is already is a vaccine pretty much ready to go but because they were a small company they didn't have the money for human trials and they couldn't get funding for it because not considered important so it was shelved. Read 1. only affects poor Africans 2. Not enough profit for Big Pharma.
As it turns out, Ebola is a rather easy virus to make a vaccine for compared to most viruses, but as you point out Big Pharma and even the few remaining small ones are driven by profit and not compassion. Several [I think four] companies in the USA and one in Europe and one in Russia had begun preliminary work on an Ebola vaccine. The animal trials for some had been carried out. None had gone to the human trials, which take a long time usually. One company had made a potential cure of the virus [not a vaccine], and they too had not yet gone through the long human trials stage. This is the one that has been offered to a few persons [because they only had a very little of it on hand]. Before this epidemic episode, Ebola was always contained in Africa - in small rural areas, because it is believed to be resident in some animals that live far out in the 'bush'. Now it is also in large African cities and starting to spread to the rest of the World. It has all but shut down the economy of two African countries and is threatening several others. Current estimates are that by the beginning of December [in six weeks] from 5 to 10 thousand persons per DAY will be getting Ebola in Africa. The diseases lethality is increasing now and in Africa is currently at about 70%. Very sad news for Africa and the World. The rich, white elites may think this won't effect them....but it will. Even if it did not, a life is a life - but not to them.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass