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Ebola Vaccine Human Trials Begin
securitas writes "The Washington Post reports on the first human to be injected with '100 trillion strands of synthetic' Ebola DNA. The DNA in the vaccine has been bioengineered by Vical to remove 'the part that triggers illness and the part that might allow the DNA to recombine with the DNA of some other virus.' The New York Times, AP via ABC and BBC all have stories about the new vaccine as the WHO reports 11 dead in a new Ebola outbreak in Congo this week. If you're interested in participating in the Ebola clinical trials, the NIH needs 27 volunteers. The study only has two. Best quote comes from the NIH vaccine center's nursing director: 'People freak out about Ebola.' Slashdot previously discussed an Ebola/HIV gene therapy."
...Darl McBride for a test subject.
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Having spent some time at a lab doing cutting edge HIV research I have to say that the genes which help HIV infect and persist in cells are also what makes HIV incurable. While we now understand the basics, we still don't understand all of the details. And given the ability of viruses to rapidly mutate and/or trade genes, the last thing I want is a permanent, incurable, but theoretically harmless, virus in my system which can mutate into something nasty or pick up new tricks from another more harmful virus I might come down with... Ebola may be the same way.
I'm all for continuing research in the secure facility, but until we have the ability to eradicate such a virus from the body I'd be very reluctant to have even a "harmless" virus with those genes added inserted into anyone who isn't already dying, and even then I'd have to think long and hard.
What caused this and HIV is some African nigger butt fucking a monkey. Let them all die!
Your uncle must be very proud Mr AssFace.
Nobody cares if a bunch of people in the Congo or someplace else in BFA dies because of Ebola. They do care if some idiot visiting these shitholes brings it back to London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, or NYC. THAT's why a vaccine is being developed. Personally, I think they should just shoot any native of Africa, the MiddleEast, or southern Asia after they step off the plane.