First Human Ebola Vaccine Trial Shows It Seems to Work
Source: NBC
The first test of an Ebola vaccine in people shows it's safe and appears to be working as designed, doctors reported Wednesday.
A look at the first 20 people injected with the vaccine, which has been shown to protect monkeys from Ebola, shows no dangerous side effects. And it seems to be producing an immune response that would be expected to protect them from infection.
"This response is very comparable to the level of the response that actually protected the animals," said Dr. Tony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which helped develop and test the vaccine.
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There's no ethical way to vaccinate people and then expose them to Ebola on purpose, of course, so the trial is designed to see if the vaccine is safe and if the immune system responds in a way that would be expected to protect them. It did, the NIAID researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/first-human-ebola-vaccine-trial-shows-it-seems-work-n256196
deurbano
(2,895 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:00 AM - Edit history (1)
http://yourhhrsnews.com/quick-cheap-ebola-tests-could-be-key-to-halting-virusThe Q16 can diagnose the virus within five days of infection...(Another) invention...dabs...blood...on a silicon chip and shines a single-colored LED through it. The Ebola-specific particles appear as bright dots on the chip...
A vaccine divided by a faster diagnosis plus an antidote equals buh-bye, Ebola!
rocktivity
Omaha Steve
(99,658 posts)drynberg
(1,648 posts)Surprise me at all...and by keeping the tenants of the profit motive, this inoculation will be for wealthy folks only, ok?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)from before the current outbreak:
http://www.gsk.com/en-gb/our-stories/health-for-all/our-contribution-to-the-fight-against-ebola/
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/ebolamarburg/research/pages/default.aspx
There isn't a 'big profit' in an Ebola vaccine, since 'wealthy folks' haven't been at risk. This would be like moaning about the 'big profit' in yellow fever vaccines.
And you mean 'tenets', not 'tenants'. If you're going to use clichés, at least spell them right.