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BBC: Successful Ebola vaccine to be fast-tracked to market

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thefro

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Science stays winning

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38414060

BBC said:
A highly effective vaccine that guards against the deadly Ebola virus could be available by 2018, says the World Health Organization.
Trials conducted in Guinea, one of the West African countries most affected by an outbreak of Ebola that ended this year, show it offers 100% protection.
The vaccine is now being fast-tracked for regulatory approval.
Manufacturer Merck has made 300,000 doses of the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine available for use should Ebola strike.
GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, provided $5m for the stockpile.
Results, published in The Lancet medical journal, show of nearly 6,000 people receiving the vaccine, all were free of the virus 10 days later.
In a group of the same size not vaccinated, 23 later developed Ebola.
Only one person who was vaccinated had a serious side effect that the researchers think was caused by the jab. This was a very high temperature and the patient recovered fully.
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Aiii

So not worth it
6000 people, only one person with side-effects and a 100% cover rate, that's the stuff of dreams.
 
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KingBroly

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Only one person who was vaccinated had a serious side effect that the researchers think was caused by the jab. This was a very high temperature and the patient recovered fully.
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The jab? Is that what they call shots in the UK?
 
Escape Goat

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Getting people to be vaccinated is going to be tougher. There's a lot of distrust towards vaccinations and outright superstition regarding ebola.
 
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JonnyDBrit

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The one potential uncertainty in this seems to be children, since apparently they were excluded from the trial (legal issues, I'd imagine). Still, at 100% effectiveness in adults, I can't imagine puberty making up too much of a difference.
 
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ZeroX03

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JonnyDBrit said:
The one potential uncertainty in this seems to be children, since apparently they were excluded from the trial (legal issues, I'd imagine). Still, at 100% effectiveness in adults, I can't imagine puberty making up too much of a difference.
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Autistic child zombies tho
 
Ray Wonder

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Crazy, I can't even imagine the process that they go through to make something like this.
 
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Samurai G0SU

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Thank you Science and all of those who volunteered to combat this! Many sacrifices were made and this is a great victory.

Hopefully something doesn't happen down the road and the vaccine makes matters worse with other strains..
 
E-Cat

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Results, published in The Lancet medical journal, show of nearly 6,000 people receiving the vaccine, all were free of the virus 10 days later.
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Wait, they already had the virus and were cured? Or it was in some dormant state but they weren't showing symptoms? That's not how vaccines are supposed to work--maybe just a weird way of saying that they weren't infected later?
 
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AndyD

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E-Cat said:
Wait, they already had the virus and were cured? Or it was in some dormant state but they weren't showing symptoms? That's not how vaccines are supposed to work--maybe just a weird way of saying that they weren't infected later?
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They had the researcher on NPR this morning. Essentially this is a vaccine that needs to be given shortly after exposure, rather than months/years ahead as is traditional. He said this is very good to prevent huge outbreaks, but realistically they are working towards that traditional model of vaccines you can have long before. To me it sounds closer to the HIV retrovirals which can be given after exposure rather than something like a MMR vaccine you get as a young child and works for years.
 
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Great news, though back when the 2014 outbreak was in full force I got the impression that an Ebola vaccines was not some sort of uncrackable nut that scientists had battled with for years. It was mostly that the disease mainly affected poor countries, and there wasn't much money available for research. Once cases started showing up in the west, the purse strings loosened considerably and the results seem to have come rather quickly.
 
E-Cat

E-Cat

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AndyD said:
They had the researcher on NPR this morning. Essentially this is a vaccine that needs to be given shortly after exposure, rather than months/years ahead as is traditional. He said this is very good to prevent huge outbreaks, but realistically they are working towards that traditional model of vaccines you can have long before. To me it sounds closer to the HIV retrovirals which can be given after exposure rather than something like a MMR vaccine you get as a young child and works for years.
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I see. Thanks!
 
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djplaeskool

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Herr Schwarz said:
Science, bitches.
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op_ivy

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Not sure how to feel about this... i mean ebola is terrible stuff, but a vaccine? Fighting fire with fire? Two wrongs dont make a right.
 
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Madness

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Escape Goat said:
Getting people to be vaccinated is going to be tougher. There's a lot of distrust towards vaccinations and outright superstition regarding ebola.
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Pretty sure no one who is infected by Ebola is going to be distrusting of a vaccination considering they will only have days maybe a few weeks to live if they don't get this shot.

Edit: I seem to have misread. My apologies. It is not effective against those already afflicted with the strain. But even still if you have an outbreak going why would someone turn down a vaccination against one of the fastest killing viruses known.
 
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Xe4

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SlipperyFishes said:
Thank God no cuntbag like Martin Skrelli has any way to fuck up availaibility.

R.. right?
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Luckily pharmaceuticals are pretty charitable when it comes to vaccines, such that they tray it as PR, since it doesn't make much money anyhow. This isn't coming to the US for a while anyways, as the need isn't as great as it is in Africa.

Madness said:
Pretty sure no one who is infected by fucking Ebola is going to be distrusting of a vaccination considering they will only have days maybe a few weeks to live if they don't get this shot.
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I don't think this vaccine helps if you already have the virus.

Edit: apperently I'm wrong. Wierd, doesn't really sound like a traditional vaccine as much.
 
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KHarvey16

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BlackLagoon said:
Great news, though back when the 2014 outbreak was in full force I got the impression that an Ebola vaccines was not some sort of uncrackable nut that scientists had battled with for years. It was mostly that the disease mainly affected poor countries, and there wasn't much money available for research. Once cases started showing up in the west, the purse strings loosened considerably and the results seem to have come rather quickly.
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It's not really that. Before the latest outbreak, which was the largest by quite a bit, Ebola was responsible for like a couple hundred deaths per year at most.
 
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