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Line Up! 'Millions' of Ebola vaccine doses by end of 2015

James Gallagher
BBC
Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:41 UTC

Millions of doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has announced. It said "several hundred thousand" would be produced in the first half of the year.

And vaccines could be offered to health workers on the frontline in West Africa as soon as December 2014. However, the WHO cautioned that vaccines would not be a "magic bullet" for ending the outbreak. There is no proven cure or vaccine for Ebola.

In response to the largest epidemic of the disease in history, the WHO is accelerating the process of vaccine development. It normally takes years to produce and test a vaccine, but drug manufacturers are now working on a scale of weeks.

More Ebola cases

The government in Mali has confirmed the first case of Ebola in the country. A two-year-old girl tested positive for the virus after returned from neighbouring Guinea. Meanwhile a doctor in New York, who has also returned from Guinea, is in hospital with the virus. Dr Craig Spencer came down with a fever on Thursday, days after his return, officials say.

Correct dose

Two experimental vaccines, produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Public Health Agency of Canada, are already in safety trials. The GSK vaccine is being tested in Mali, the UK and the US. Research on the Canadian vaccine is also under way in the US with further trials expected to start in Europe and Africa soon.

The results are expected in December. After that, trials will move to countries affected by Ebola, probably starting with Liberia. That will allow researchers to assess how effective the vaccine is and what dose is needed to provide protection.

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rybo1 · 2014-10-24T17:03:31Z

Vaccine

I'll not be lining up.

lydia · 2014-10-24T17:05:13Z

Over my death body. Never, EVER, I will be vaccinated.

Ruth · 2014-10-24T23:31:25Z

And what if you're rounded up at gun point? Will you vaccinate then? Like a good little member of a herd?

Divide By Zero · 2014-10-25T05:34:40Z

RUTH? Re: Vaccine

Ruth,
Really what is the choice in that case?
Should we be part of the herd and take the shot?
Or should we not be part of the herd and get executed as some terrorist, because we are stirring up "disorder"?

What was your comment for, to make people who say no to the shot see how futile it can be?

I'm tired of this world, there's really no solution- and no place to go. Hide in the woods maybe, but then what? It's still a crap hole.

HashAttack · 2014-10-24T18:00:23Z

Line up, Line Up .... MSM scares the sheeple re Ebola so that they all line up and get their rabies based vaccine

HashAttack · 2014-10-24T18:02:41Z

No dots to see here ... move along ...

Already in safety trials. The GSK vaccine is being tested in Mali

Mali confirmed its first case of Ebola on Thursday

Divide By Zero · 2014-10-25T05:45:32Z

Exactly, like the flu shot my co workers get, half of them get sick... lol

And yes, one thing I disagree with is this Ebola hype:
-It "can be airborne"- Really, you can't confirm this in testing? Why is it still unknown? I think it's hype.
-It's xx% deadly... then how come the people in US/Europe that had it have a much lower death rate?

Got to wonder if the death rate in Africa is due to the horrible water and food supply... I remember reading how life expectancy went up in the past due to water improvements and santitation. NOT vaccines, not modern medicine!

davidh7426 · 2014-10-24T18:24:55Z

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I'd say that it's a reasonable fair bet, that the common man won't be first in line for any Ebola vaccine, except as 'crash test dummies'.

It'll be those deemed most necessary to society that'll get first whack, the medico's and their support staff.

Then it'll be the politicians, bankers, 1% ( who'll probably have their own supply anyway ) and any body else deemed necessary.

And with only 'millions' of doses potentially available, most of us will die of old-age before we even get a whiff on anything like a vaccine.

Mandatory Intellectomy · 2014-10-24T18:44:55Z

Doctors, politicians, and bankers first? Really? You think they're gonna risk it?
You seem to be under the impression that these vaccines will actually prevent or cure Ebola.
I wonder where you get that optimism, especially in the light of some of the things mentioned in the article (see my comments below).

davidh7426 · 2014-10-24T21:35:35Z

If Ebola reaches the pandemic stage, they'll be getting desperate, and start grasping at straws. If there's even a chance that a vaccine will work, they'll give it to the Medic's, they won't really have a choice, the medics are the most important people alive at the moment.

And if as I said Ebola goes pandemic, do you really think that people like the Koch brothers and the rest of the 1%, the politicians and any one with even a smidgin of power are going to be willing to wait in line like good little boys and girls, for a vaccine. They'll climb over each others backs, do whatever it takes to survive, even if it's 50/50 that the vaccine works.

We the little people will have to fend for ourselves, but we're used to doing that aren't we.

Ruth · 2014-10-24T23:30:06Z

Uhm, David, "we the little people" are nothing but experimental guinea pigs if push comes to shove.

Divide By Zero · 2014-10-25T05:48:50Z

Look up how the flu vaccine doesn't work, in fact causes problems.

If there is a vaccine that "works" keep in mind that the general populace will get the toxic version. There won't be a line for it, but it will be forced.

There is even an argument that people not vaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated population.
You see how stupid that is? If they are vaccinated, they can't get sick from it, so why are they arguing that EVERYONE needs to be vaccinated?

NVRRPNT · 2014-10-24T18:35:58Z

Division Based on Fear

As a Microbiology graduate I ABHOR the idea of our modern day vaccines. Back in the college days I recall studying the beautiful complexity of the immune system in the Immunology class. While the body would need an external stimulant to create an antigen (a natural response to an existential threat to the body), it can also illicit unwanted/detrimental consequence when using synthetic chemicals to provoke this reaction. To me there has been enough evidence to connect Autism and Allergies (to name a few modern day aliments) to an immune system gone astray. This is due to the toxic materials used as the main ingredients in vaccine production. Let's not consider the fact that you're being injected with a "live, yet weakened" virus. The body may begin to attack itself, or loose the battle against the virus itself. Since we don't fully know the full extent of using it on an individual basis (as each human being is genetically unique with their own DNA structure) you'll be playing roulette with your health...and roulette has the worst odds against a player in any gambling establishment!!! My biggest fear is the paranoia created by those who choose to take the vaccine against those who don't...Not only would you be shunned like a leper, but may have friends and neighbors turning against you. I for one choose NOT TO TAKE the vaccine. Good hygiene and a healthy immune system would do its "natural" job in defending the body as it does against microbes on a daily basis.

SeekinTruth · 2014-10-25T04:11:26Z

Yeah, vaccination has been made to be synonymous with immunity - which it is not. Innate immunity works totally differently than when exposed to pathogens injected directly into the blood stream, bypassing the normal pathways of natural exposure. All of it is made even more dangerous with all the other substances, like aluminum and mercury, etc., to the vaccines.

Mandatory Intellectomy · 2014-10-24T18:40:59Z

"It normally takes years to produce and test a vaccine, but drug manufacturers are now working on a scale of weeks"
Strangely, they don't mention just how this speed-up from years to weeks is being achieved.

Logically, either they've been terribly slacking until now, or they're doing a terribly sloppy job this time. Of course the obvious first casualty is proper testing. As if vaccines weren't hazardous enough already.

The idea that instead of years this will take weeks should scare anyone with a working brain.

"There is no proven cure or vaccine for Ebola."
Funny that you say that. You're basically admitting that the guys cook up something in the labs within weeks, don't have time to test it properly, and it's not proven to work. Yet you're gonna try to make millions of people have it injected into their bodies.

danbo · 2014-10-24T21:50:53Z

I Am Legend

Read and or watch I am legend.... This is starting to sound reminiscent.....

elbo · 2014-10-24T22:13:08Z

Knowledge is important here...

Most folks aren't looking at the real picture: [Link]

Thanks Ben Turner. I bet you never thought you'd be making your living writing fiction, did you?

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