Ebola Vaccines Successfully Tested on Monkeys

An Anonymous Reader writes "Canadian and American researchers, in a joint venture between Canada's National Microbiology Lab and the U.S. military, have created two vaccines that prevent Monkeys from becoming ill with Ebola and Marburg. While a human vaccine may still be 5 years away, this is very promising news.

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Why not just test it on humans now?

[killa62]

Since Ebola is such a deadly disease, surely many natives would risk the possible side effects of the vaccine to have resistance to ebola, so why not test it, if it works, just implement it and not wait 5 years of more people dying, etc?
This is the same with all drugs, why not?

Re:Queue the Whackos

[Seumas]

Talk about a whacko.

Save millions of people? You do realize ebola has only ever killed, like, 800 people?

Re:Queue the Whackos

[Atrax]

Ebola, as it currently stands, is too deadly to be a global threat. that's right. too deadly. it kills the host too quickly and in too spectacular a manner to achieve a serious spread. The real killers are the ones that spread silently, then take effect. Like flu.

Of course, it could mutate into a slower incubating version, in which case panic, put until then, I'm not worried about filoviruses. I'd be more worried about the asian 'bird flu'.