Ebola vaccine is in the works:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-vaccine-seems-safe-in-first-stage-testing/2014/11/26/6bb63c42-75d6-11e4-8893-97bf0c02cc5f_story.html
Now I want you all to consider the press this piece is getting compared to the silence we have gotten. Here is an international story on an Ebola vaccine under way. Yes, it was done on human volunteers. And yes, it showed promise in that antibodies developed in the subjects. Now consider the flack Howard and I are taking for not actually having in hand, as yet, a blood test on our first patient. This vaccine story makes international news even though we will NEVER EVER see proper scientific testing of the effectiveness of this vaccine, in that we can NEVER EVER tempt fate by exposing those vaccinated to real Ebola. Why? They could still get infected. The vaccine might not provide full immunity, or it might provide immunity to a different strain than what the virus has morphed to. So, no proof of anything here with relation to a real case, but the story makes huge news as a promising approach.
You might ask, “Why?” I’ll tell you the same answer as always. Follow the money trail!. The vaccine will make bazillions for the maker in Africa, and perhaps even more here from people scared out of their minds about Ebola, or if/when we see cases coming up from bioterrorism. If there is bioterrorism, and Ebola starts making the rounds where it should not, watch the pundits run for this product. In the meantime, Dr. Robins and I have shown a MOST promising therapy to treat the actual disease which deserves attention and formal study, which no one will profit from since you cannot patent ozone.
Newsscience.org tells us: “The driver [of the vaccine process] is really the productivity of the cell line,” Ballou says. He puts the most optimistic timeline for 100,000 to 500,000 doses at 9 months—and the cost at $25 million.
Do the math, one dose of the vaccine now underway by PHARMA giant GSK, will cost, at best, $50 and at worst $250. And, it’s a crap-shoot. Even if it works, it could cover this Ebola outbreak only. Not others, and not offer a scrap of protection against other plagues that will certainly come.
So, let’s round the cost figure off to just $100. If just one million doses are prepared for Sierra Leone, that’s $100,000,000 cost for just that country. And, if Ebola becomes a bioterrorist phenomenon, well, consider taking out a mortgage on the entire world. On the other hand, if there is a $40 risk free treatment for just those who get the disease, and you don’t need to take the risk of the vaccine, and the $40 treatment can also treat all the potential strains that might emerge, that might put a crimp into the profiteering on this malady, and take the Heavenly reward away from the terrorists who won’t be able to kill people with a cure down the street.
Oh, sorry. I don’t mean to be jumping to conclusions. Just want to present the facts.
Stay tuned. I think I’ll have some more hot information for you soon.
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