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Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection, Could Be Readily Available By 2018 (bbc.com)
According to a study published in the Lancet medical journal on Thursday, an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus was found to be 100 percent effective. The results offer hope of better protection against the disease that ravaged West Africa in 2014, killing more than 11,000 people. From a report on BBC: A highly effective vaccine that guards against the deadly Ebola virus could be available by 2018, says the World Health Organization. Trials conducted in Guinea, one of the West African countries most affected by an outbreak of Ebola that ended this year, show it offers 100% protection. The vaccine is now being fast-tracked for regulatory approval. Manufacturer Merck has made 300,000 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine available for use should Ebola strike.
GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, provided $5m for the stockpile.
Results, published in The Lancet medical journal, show of nearly 6,000 people receiving the vaccine, all were free of the virus 10 days later. In a group of the same size not vaccinated, 23 later developed Ebola. Only one person who was vaccinated had a serious side effect that the researchers think was caused by the jab.
...among anti-vaxxers :)
Know that Marburg and Reston are sometimes called Ebola but are not the same as Ebola Zebov. Still what ever trick was done to find a protective antigen can likely be repeated for these. The most important aspect of this is that it can protect health workers. Treating Ebola patients in hot climates is hard to do when you have to wear so much protective gear.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
So we had best wait a year before doing anything with it. Until it's ready for human use you don't have a vaccine, you have a hype train.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Please weight the pro's and cons of any vaccine judiciously, esp. if giving them to children:
1. Don't give multiple vaccines in the same visit, and don't give vaccines that claim to prevent multiple diseases in the same injection (ie. MMR).
2. Wait at least a year between vaccinations.
3. Before considering vaccination, research and educate yourself on other effective practices such as herbs and yoga.
4. Loudly reject any vaccine that contains mercury and lead.
Too many people are being injured from bad vaccines and everyone needs to speak out have safeguards put into the system.
Fixed in 4 years.
Disease stuck in the third world: still endemic.
Not racism. There's no money in selling drugs to poor people, and the owners of the drug companies are rich westerners who won't get dengue, but might get Ebola. Their lives are just a BIT more important than other peoples'.
How long until someone suggests that this is a scheme by Merck to profit or do "some horrible thing" to poor African villagers who would surely prefer to die of disease or malnutrition. "I can't believe they're selling this instead of giving it away for free!" "How do they know those villagers wouldn't have gotten better on their own!?"
if these companies had any shred of ethics they would sending this stuff to africa by the plane-load, for free.
Cognitive dissonance in the title. (100% protection? Seriously?)
For those that deny any possibility that vaccines are dangerous, stand up and point out the flaw of claiming 100% protection. You know there is no such thing, as there are always outliers and circumstances.
Stand up for the truth, even if it doesn't support your world view. Do not use deceptions and lies to justify your agenda. This is how we have gotten into so many messes in this world.
I might as well ask you what you've done to reduce your carbon footprint. Even IF I had sat on my arse eating cheetos and pizza, it still wouldn't change the fact that it takes 4 years for a disease that spread into the west and could infect wealthy people, but 40 years later and we're still dilly-dallying over treatments for more serious and widespread diseases in Africa, that merely don't affect people in the West. If I had organised Feed The World three times, it wouldn't change that fact either. And if you were driving an SUV and giggling at the warmer weather, STILL nothing would change there.
ALL you're trying to do is poison the well and deflect. You would have been better off not responding rather than give me a chance to point out how desperate you have to be to resort to this trick.
I posted this story, not msmash.
Is this happening to other people too? For example, might there be someone other than BeauHD who posted a renewable energy story?
That it's more important to fix diseases that can affect the affluent in the west than just the poor in Africa because the threat to them is important to them, and the money from poor people is low to nonexistent. Feel free to see how exceptional this claim is and whether we have enough anecdotal evidence of this being likely.
OR you could try wondering why this one took 4 years and only 11,000 deaths.
This vaccine was developed in Canada. See http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/canadian-vaccine-for-ebola-virus-proves-extremely-effective-in-clinical-trial/article33416753/
Is it finally time for the zombie apocalypse?
BeauHD and a couple other suspicious handles are submitting a lot of the same stories over on soylentnews.org and juggling up submission times on them so you will see one here 'early' then see the other the next day, or a couple days later, and sometimes you see them both simultaneously...
Are they maybe shilling for some news company or PR firm who wants these stories published, rather than for the benefit of the community?
Seems suspicious to me.
What is more telling is that it took for some white people to be infected to start research into making a vaccine
Take this with a great big block of salt, as this comes from the Great Vaccine Liar, Merck, which was caught red handed lying about the effectiveness and deadly side effects of its MMR vaccine.
staying as far away as possible from black people
no need to inject anything into you, just dont listen to hip hop and stay away from blacks