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Canada Will Ship 800 Doses of Experimental Ebola Drug to WHO
The WSJ reports that 800 doses of an experimental vaccine for Ebola, developed over a decade at Public Health Agency of Canada’s main laboratory in Winnipeg, will be shipped to the World Health Organization in an effort to help fight the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa: The vaccine will be shipped by air from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to the University Hospital of Geneva via specialized courier. The vials will be sent in three separate shipments as a precautionary measure, due to the challenges in moving a vaccine that must kept at a very low temperature at all times. ... The vaccine had shown “very promising results in animal research” and earlier this week, Ottawa announced the start of clinical trials on humans at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the U.S. ... The government has licensed NewLink Genetics Corp. , of the U.S., through its wholly owned subsidiary BioProtection Systems Corp. to further develop the vaccine for use in humans. The government owns the intellectual property rights associated with the vaccine.
You're missing the point of that statement.
The Government of Canada is giving it to WHO, you should be aware that it wasn't a private organization, but Canada and it's tax payers who are contributing to this. This is a good sign, as it means the citizens of Canada have control over it through their government, which means it won't be used to extort riches. Hence it going to WHO.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that MSNBC screams that black people are being used as guinea pigs