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Vaccines for Ebola and Marburg!

06/05/2005 6:25 PM

Carl Forch writes:
Excellent news! Researchers from the Public Health Agency of Canada - with assistance from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases - have developed vaccines against the Ebola and Marburg viruses. The vaccines are working in primate test subjects - 100% effective - so it's only a matter of time before we can be protected from Hemorrhagic Fevers. I wonder how quickly these can be dispersed and lead to innoculations in the African countries where these viruses explode every few years? Now let's hope they can work their magic on Bird Flu.

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Ebola

06/06/2005 8:43 AM

Ebola has to be the single scariest viruses that I have ever heard of in the history pathogens. I grew up to things like the Stand and Outbreak. We were always terrified that it would make it way to the USA and just decimate the population. The fact that they might have a vaccine for it makes me feel a lot better, even though I don't loose sleep about it at night.

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Don't forget AIDS

06/06/2005 12:33 PM

Although less virulent than Ebola or Marburg, it has killed thousands of times as many people worldwide. We in the US, tend to forget about it because it can be "controlled" by medical cocktails; but it continues to devaste much of the developing world.

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Re:Don't forget AIDS

06/08/2005 1:21 PM

I know, but AIDS isn't airborne. For an infectious virus AIDS is fairly hard to catch. Medically speaking it is fragile outside of the human body and it can only be spread through very few methods, like the exchange of bodily fluids.
If I am informed and take precautions, my chances of catching AIDS is very small. I can't defend against something like Ebola, if I'm where it is I'm pretty well screwed.

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