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Vaccine ignorance — deadly and contagious

In the absence of credible, strong political leadership, paranoia about disease can go viral. We’ve seen this happen around the world with a wide range of illnesses, from swine flu to SARS to Ebola. And even after...

24 October, 2014

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NIH begins early human clinical trial of VSV Ebola vaccine

Human testing of a second investigational Ebola vaccine candidate is under way at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and...

24 October, 2014

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Russian scientists working on fast-acting Ebola vaccine

Russian scientists are developing a technology to make monoclonal antibodies specific to the Ebola virus. If successful, the resulting medicine could be available as soon as December. Testing points to a positive effect...

24 October, 2014

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At symposium, vaccine seen as best hope for arresting Ebola

At a wide-ranging symposium on West Africa’s Ebola epidemic today, much of the attention focused on the hope of an effective vaccine, as a US official announced that a large clinical trial of two candidate...

17 October, 2014

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Why there’s no Ebola vaccine, yet?

Search for vaccine is often a very expensive business. There has to be a large ready market for pharmaceutical companies to invest their private capital. So, the question is, are drug companies interested in something...

10 October, 2014

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Ebola kills 3,000 while scientists scramble for vaccine

Over 3,000 people have died from the Ebola virus in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization. With no signs of the deadly virus slowing down, scientists and pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to find...

3 October, 2014

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Life-saving drugs and deadly delays

The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life...

3 October, 2014

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IMF unblocks cash as desperate West Africa awaits Ebola aid

The International Monetary Fund fast-tracked $130 million in aid Friday to fight the Ebola epidemic after the governments of the worst-hit countries in west Africa said they were desperately counting on promises of...

29 September, 2014

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Another View: As ‘endemic’ Ebola looms, developing effective treatment must become public, private priority

The CDC projects up to 1.4 million cases by February, but not a single drug or vaccine is ready. Everything about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been worst-case – the scope, the toll, the response. The Centers...

29 September, 2014

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Looking towards a serum from Ebola survivors to aid in outbreak treatment efforts

Eight months since the Ebola virus showed its face in a village in Guinea in December, and with more than 3,000 total Ebola-related deaths, the international community is scaling up response efforts, which until now...

29 September, 2014

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