Ebola Vaccine

[MrDawn]

Will they ever get an Ebola Vaccine made?

I hear its made its way to the phase 1 trials....whatever that means.

I've been looking at pictures of people who have it and reading about it and I really don't want to get it should an out break hit the US. It's suppose to be a combination of AID's and a really bad case of the flu and possible terminal death..... since it hits and destroys your T Cells and cause massive organ failure, internal bleeding and all sorts of horrible things. Sounds painful.

I'm sort of horrified on the subject, thats what could happen. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst right?

 

[Andyman9491]

I hope so. For now, though I'm afraid Ebola is incurable. Hopefully, someone could shed some light on the subject.

 

[Lord Saru]

To confirm a few facts here, Ebola is painful and it leads to death by the way of severe internal bleeding sometimes, as terminal as intestinal perforations and sore ulcers.

Now, vaccine.

There is only one reported drug available and is called ZMapp. The problem is, as per US laws, this drug has not undergone human trials and have only been tested on experimental animals showing less than 50% of probable recovery. However, Ebola being declared an emergency on international scale by WHO, it has authorized the use of the drug provided that all administration is within the ethical lines.

I am quite hopeful that a vaccine shall be introduced in the near future because we do have cases were antibodies from Ebola infected people has been found to prevent the spread of the disease, though its still under trial.

 

[MrDawn]

Yeah, I heard the serum is mainly a blood serum. Not really blood, but of blood plasma and anti bodies from people who have survived the virus.

If an outbreak is inevitable, I'll have to go around wearing rubber gloves, and a face mask when going to work or going to the grocery store and avoiding fast food at all costs.

I don't want to be a victim of this thing. I don't want to end up like those people, so I'm hoping and waiting for a vaccine.

By the way. Why wasn't a vaccine made 40 years ago when it was discovered in Africa in 1976? They've had all this time to work on this thing.

Why wait t'ill it gets out of hand now, than be like " OH!, we should start working on a vaccine!"

Why all the procrastination? The CDC had to have known that it was possible. Isn't it better to be ready than caught unexpectedly by such a lethal contagion?

I mean this is pretty serious. This thing just tears your Immune system apart preventing anyone from getting better, than just kills you. I have no idea how other people have recovered from it.

 

[Sinion Kabe]

We can only hope that an effective vaccine becomes available. Seems like a horrible way to go and it is causing so much suffering.

 

[Tindris]

By the way. Why wasn't a vaccine made 40 years ago when it was discovered in Africa in 1976? They've had all this time to work on this thing.

Why wait t'ill it gets out of hand now, than be like " OH!, we should start working on a vaccine!"

Why all the procrastination? The CDC had to have known that it was possible. Isn't it better to be ready than caught unexpectedly by such a lethal contagion?

Unfortunately, it is called modern society. Today, everything in our society is driven by profit, even such things as creating cures for diseases. Back when the disease was discovered there was no epidemic, no fear, in other words, nothing for the companies that make vaccines to earn money off. Who is going to vaccinate against something that isn't dangerous? Especially in African countries, so far from home? People are pretty narrow-minded when it comes to such things...

A few years ago, a potential cure for certain types of cancer was discovered. No company was interested in making the investments in investigating it, no profit = project dropped.

It happens over and over again in today's society. It is unfortunately a disadvantage of the capitalistic system we have built for ourselves..

 

[+Justice]

if a vaccine for ebola that works is created, that would be great for the world...

even though i don't take nor trust other vaccines like the flu vaccine...

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I'm sure somewhere in the world, we will come up with it at some point. Look what we can do with a smartphone - surely we can be innovative enough to cure Ebola. However there are many different stands of it, like the flu, so its not really a one cure for all sort of thing.

 

[+Justice]

I'm sure somewhere in the world, we will come up with it at some point. Look what we can do with a smartphone - surely we can be innovative enough to cure Ebola. However there are many different stands of it, like the flu, so its not really a one cure for all sort of thing.

the problem is when cures do get developed, sometimes "important" or rich people hide or buy the patent so the cures can't be out in the open market because they would make more money off of medications that only masks the issues...

it's sad that people only think about making money instead of helping the human race as a whole...

 

[AllAmericanVitamins]

I do believe they already have a cure for most viruses and diseases. Wether it becomes released to the general public is the real question. If you look at Russia they have had Ebola spores for years, to be used in negative ways I'm assuming. Some theories are that Ebola and even HIV are man made viruses. But I'm no doctor, I can barely read good. Lmao.