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18 Feb ’12
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Officials will stop giving the vaccine next week to get more data and liaise with others who are testing the vaccine in the U.S., Canada, Germany and Gabon.
The vaccine was developed by the Canadian government and is licensed to two U.S. companies, NewLink and Merck. The trial is scheduled to resume in January in Geneva.
It sounds like they are suspending the trial to find out what's causing the joint swelling and pain. They'll want to determine if it's a temporary condition that subsides with time, or is it causing permanent damage like an autoimmune reaction. Autoimmune reactions can be debilitating and some would argue that's a worse fate than death.
15 Feb ’12
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surprised how quickly they have gotten these to human trials
18 Feb ’12
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KVR said
surprised how quickly they have gotten these to human trials
It's all due to political pressure. Ebola's mortality rate is a drop in the bucket compared to malaria, AIDS, and filarial diseases in Africa.
Any time I read news and try to figure out what the REAL back story is, I try to follow the money. The UN always looks to the US as their ATM machine, but the UN isn't really that involved in rendering aid in Africa. It seems a lot of countries are using their militaries to distribute aid. My best bet is that the West is using the epidemic to gain a foothold in Africa as a countermove against the Chinese and their insatiable need for raw materials.
On the other hand, a lot of drug companies have spent billions on viral vaccine research for AIDS, and most of them have not recouped their costs, except for maybe Merck with the Gardasil/HPV vaccine. Maybe the Ebola scare is a way to energize their viral vaccine research groups with easy government money.
It's too bad all this money couldn't be spent on clean water, seeds, microloans, and infrastructure. I shudder to think what just the US military has spent deploying a few thousand soldiers to Africa.
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K15 Feb ’12
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some good news
Just five Ebola cases left in Liberia, government says
Reuters) - Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country's success in halting new infections.
The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 8,600 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Earlier this year at the height of the outbreak in Liberia, hospitals without beds for new patients were forced to turn away victims and bodies were left in the streets.
But a massive international response -- including the deployment of hundreds of U.S. troops to build treatment centers -- plus a public awareness campaign, contributed to a steep decline in infection rates.
"We have five confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia as of today," said Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia's Ebola taskforce.
"It means that we are going down to zero, if everything goes well, if other people don’t get sick in other places."
Three of the remaining cases were in the capital Monrovia and the other two in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties, he added.
Nyenswah said last week that Liberia could be free of the virus by the end of next month.
15 Feb ’12
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I thought this was under control?
Sierra Leone is to enforce a three-day lockdown of key parts of the country to try to contain the Ebola epidemic.
There have been 3,702 reported deaths from Ebola in the West African nation.
A three-day curfew in September, keeping people at home under quarantine, was hailed as a success by authorities, despite some criticism.
The country's National Ebola Response Centre says a new lockdown will come into place next week. It will affect close to 2.5m people.
While the number of cases has slowed since the peak of the outbreak, the virus is far from eradicated.
In the seven days leading up to March 15, there were 55 new cases in Sierra Leone, and 90 in neighbouring Guinea.
The number of new cases in Liberia - where most deaths have occurred - has not been registered
15 Feb ’12
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some good news out of WI
Ebola whole virus vaccine shown effective, safe in primates
An Ebola whole virus vaccine, constructed using a novel experimental platform, has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the often fatal virus.
The vaccine, described today (March 26, 2015) in the journal Science, was developed by a group led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a University of Wisconsin-Madison expert on avian influenza, Ebola and other viruses of medical importance. It differs from other Ebola vaccines because as an inactivated whole virus vaccine, it primes the host immune system with the full complement of Ebola viral proteins and genes, potentially conferring greater protection.
15 Feb ’12
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might have popped back up in NJ
Hazardous materials crews responded to a New Jersey condominium complex after a sick person sparked Ebola fears, NBC 10 in Philadelphia reports.
State and local police responded overnight Tuesday into Wednesday to what they called a hazmat situation at Squankum Road and East Kennedy Boulevard in Lakewood, reports NBC 10.
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