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originally posted by: NavyDoc
originally posted by: UnBreakable
a reply to: Vdogg
After it's proven that the vaccine works on the two Americans, Mapp Bio. will stand to make a few billion $ at 1,000 $/shot here in the USA. They know they can't make any money from any west African countries, therefore hundreds of Africans are expendable. Ah, I long for the days of Jonas Salk, who gave his vaccine for polio without the thought of making money or big pharma getting involved. This is why they'll never trot oui the cure for cancer publicly, although it's been cured in a lab. No money to be made. They make big bucks on chemo drugs.
It's not a vaccine.
There is no market for ebola vaccine in the US anyway.
originally posted by: UnBreakable
originally posted by: NavyDoc
originally posted by: UnBreakable
a reply to: Vdogg
After it's proven that the vaccine works on the two Americans, Mapp Bio. will stand to make a few billion $ at 1,000 $/shot here in the USA. They know they can't make any money from any west African countries, therefore hundreds of Africans are expendable. Ah, I long for the days of Jonas Salk, who gave his vaccine for polio without the thought of making money or big pharma getting involved. This is why they'll never trot oui the cure for cancer publicly, although it's been cured in a lab. No money to be made. They make big bucks on chemo drugs.
It's not a vaccine.
There is no market for ebola vaccine in the US anyway.
My bad, you're right it's not a "vaccine". It's a promising treatment. Mapp will still stand to make big bucks from their "treatment." True, there is no market for an ebola vaccine in the US......yet. Let's see if there's a market three months from now.
originally posted by: Vdogg
Why is any cure to ANY disease classified top secret? That information belongs to the world. You mean we've been sitting on a cure for how G-d damn long, with Africans dying by the hundreds, yet when two (2) Americans get it we trot this thing out? Ridiculous. I don't care if it is experimental. If someone is lying there bleeding out you try anything to save their lives.
A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies. In this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the research team describes a proof-of-concept for using a "cocktail" of monoclonal antibodies, or mAbs, to prevent lethal disease in rhesus macaques. When administered one hour after infection, all animals survived. Two-thirds of the animals were protected even when the treatment, known as MB-003, was administered 48 hours after infection.
According to first author James Pettitt of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the research team previously demonstrated that the treatment — known as MB - 003 — protected 100 percent of non - human primates when given one hour after Ebola exposure.
Two - thirds of the animals were protected when treated 48 hours after exposure. In the current study , 43 percent of infected non - human primates recovered after receiving the treatment intravenously 104 to 120 hours after infection.
The experimental design differed significantly from the team’s earlier work — this time, infected animals were not treated until they[
developed measurable symptoms of disease./ex]
Ebola Experimental Treatments: Tekmira TKM-EBOLA, Mapp Biopharmaceuticals MB-003
By Kathleen [email protected]@ibtimes.com
on August 01 2014 10:11 PM
www.ibtimes.com...
Experimental Ebola Treatment Came From California Company
By Erin McClam
www.nbcnews.com...
edit on 5-8-2014 by Wolfenz because: (no reason given)